Gaiutra Bahadur

Gaiutra Bahadur is the author of Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture. She is currently a scholar-in-residence at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at The New York Public Library. (September 2018)

The Jonestown We Don’t Know

Exodus motifs course through African-American religion and history, and Jim Jones tapped into them to market his vision. Every exodus needs a promised land.

December 21, 2018

Mid-Century African-American Portraits

At “African American Portraits,” viewers recognized themselves in images of strangers, whose anonymity—at once a marker of loss—also created an opportunity to claim them as kin.

September 22, 2018

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