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Throughout the history of the United States, the spread of stereotypical depictions of Black women and girls in American media, entertainment, and popular culture simultaneously reinforced white supremacist ideologies while justifying the enslavement, criminalization, and oppression of Black women and girls. 

Brianna Barrett: Brianna Barrett is a MA student in the African American and African Diaspora Studies Department at Columbia University. Her master's thesis research draws from Black Studies and Critical Dance Studies to examine the racialization of classical ballet in the United States and how the art form is shaped by and assimilates into the US's imaginative geographies, and system of white supremacy. Her other research interests are located at the intersection of Black Studies, Film and Media Studies, History, and Women and Gender Studies.

Kayla J. Smith: Kayla J. Smith is a Ph.D. student in U.S. History at Columbia University. She is interested in studying the intersections of black women’s history, cultural history, sexuality, and crime.  Her work focuses on how black women’s sexuality was expressed and suppressed in American culture and history.

Rochelle Malcolm: Rochelle Malcolm is a Ph.D. student in modern European history at Columbia University. Rochelle works on the history of visual and popular culture, education and activism; with a specific interest in Black British communities in the second half of the twentieth century.

Samuel Niu: Samuel Niu is a Ph.D. student in the History Department at Columbia University. He studies slavery, race, labor, and emancipation in the 19th Century US and Atlantic World. His research focuses on threads of connection and communication between the US and Caribbean in the age of emancipation.