Aug 18 2024 60 mins 3
It's the final episode of season one of Black Romance Has A History, and thank goodness we've gotten to the definitive history and impact of 1994, The Summer of Black Love. Or have we??? This week, Steve and Nicole grapple with the questions of impact and legacy, and the ways in which history isn't that easy to encapsulate. Was 1994 a revolution for Black romance? Or was it just a moment that has passed? There isn't really a neat old HEA for this season, sad to say...
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music by Purple Planet
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Steve Ammidown
Website: https://romancehistory.com/about/
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Bluesky: @stegan.bsky.social
Nicole M. Jackson/Katrina Jackson
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https://www.katrinajacksonauthor.com
https://www.bgsu.edu/arts-and-sciences/history/faculty-and-staff/nicole-jackson.html
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IG: @katjacksonbooks
Mentioned In This Episode
Rhua Benjamin at the Spelman 2024 Convocation
The Vivian Stephens profile at Texas Monthly that we should all know by heart by now.
Remembering the Black Expressions Book Club
The Collapse of Romance Writers of America New York Times, July 2024
Kelly Faircloth, Inside The Spectacular Explosion At The Romance Writers of America Jezebel, January 2020
Christine Larson, Love In The Time of Self-Publishing, Princeton University Press, 2024
Additional Reading:
"WHERE IS THE DIVERSITY IN PUBLISHING? THE 2023 DIVERSITY BASELINE SURVEY RESULTS", Lee & Low Books, February 2024. https://blog.leeandlow.com/2024/02/28/2023diversitybaselinesurvey/
