Lecture Title: An Ambivalent History: Blackness and Homosexuality in the Post-World War II Political Imaginary
Jennifer Dominique Jones is an Associate Professor of History and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Michigan. Her areas of research and teaching expertise are Black Queer History, Black Feminist History, African American History after 1877, with a focus on politics and social life and the History of Gender and Sexuality in the United States in the Twentieth Century with a focus on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ+) politics and community life.