Jayna Brown is professor in the Graduate Program in Media Studies at the Pratt Institute and the author of Babylon Girls: Black Women Performers and the Shaping of the Modern.
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In Black Utopias Jayna Brown takes up the concept of utopia as a way of exploring alternative states of being, doing, and imagining in Black culture. Musical, literary, and mystic practices become utopian enclaves in which Black people engage in modes of ... SEE MORE