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Jasmine Nichole Cobb

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Earl D. McLean Jr. Professor of African and African American Studies
African & African American Studies
jasmine.cobb@duke.edu
Box 90252, Durham, NC 27708
1316 Campus Drive, Durham, NC 27708
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Scholarly Works - Journal articles

Preface: African American Literature in Transition

Journal article African American Literature in Transition 1800 1830 · January 1, 2021 Full text Cite

Introduction: African American Writing Out of Bounds, 1800—1830

Journal article African American Literature in Transition 1800 1830 · January 1, 2021 The material conditions of the years between 1800 and 1830 rendered Black authors and much of African American literature “out of bounds.” Contributors engage literature by people of African descent outside of slavery’s fetters, or Black cultural producers ... Full text Cite

A more perfect union: Black freedoms, white houses

Journal article Public Culture · January 1, 2016 Full text Open Access Cite

"forget Me Not": Free Black Women and Sentimentality

Journal article Melus · September 1, 2015 Friendship albums, blank volumes with decorative covers, emerged around 1825 as part of a growing market of women's print culture. Sentimentalism, the chief vocabulary of the friendship album genre, targeted white women consumers and largely ignored black ... Full text Cite

Directed by Himself: Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave

Journal article American Literary History · April 1, 2014 Full text Cite