Professor @kjuanitabrown.bsky.social co-curated a new exhibition at the Hood Museum of Art at #Dartmouth that explores how photography shapes our sense of how we are connected to both people and places. “Visual Kinship” is on view through November 29, 2025.

"A poignant, unflinching study of black grief as a form of elegy found in visual art, music, literature—everywhere, if you know how to see it."

Shout out to @christiancentury.bsky.social for listing @kjuanitabrown.bsky.social's Black Elegies in its newsletter 📚
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"More than a meditation on mourning; it invites readers to see, hear and touch what hides in the shadow of loss that is the Black life."

The Presbyterian Outlook reviews @kjuanitabrown.bsky.social's poignant book, "Black Elegies": pres-outlook.org/2025/07/blac... @presoutlook.bsky.social

Look for the #OpenAccess digital edition from Brown University Digital Publications this August: on-seeing-black-elegies.org @browncds.bsky.social

The second title in a new publication series devoted to visual literacy, "Black Elegies" is an unflinching study of black grief as a form of elegy found in visual art, music, literature — everywhere, if you know how to see it: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255172... @kjuanitabrown.bsky.social

“I needed something that brought together my research concerns while allowing me space to write about the beauty of Black cultural productions.” In “Black Elegies” from @mitpress.bsky.social, professor @kjuanitabrown.bsky.social examines Black mourning practices across art forms. bit.ly/3FpP3p6

Dartmouth recently celebrated the formal opening of the Institute for Black Intellectual and Cultural Life, marking the permanent establishment of a vibrant, welcoming nexus of research, creativity, and community, led by professor @kjuanitabrown.bsky.social.

New in our On Seeing series, @kjuanitabrown.bsky.social's "Black Elegies" is a poignant, unflinching study of black grief as a form of elegy found in visual art, music, literature—everywhere, if you know how to see it:

Marvin Gaye’s 1983 performance of the national anthem transforms the song into a soulful elegy, a bittersweet reflection on freedom and its possibilities, writes Kimberly Juanita Brown.

Black Messiah dropped 10 years ago this month. That's RIDICULOUS.
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Happy to see two great @dukepress.bsky.social books on this superb end-of-year best of list from @hyperallergic.com ! Congrats to @eunsong.bsky.social and @drnikkigreene.bsky.social !! hyperallergic.com/968703/the-3...

#SaveTheDate: Join us for an evening with @kjuanitabrown.bsky.social (Dartmouth College) on December 12, 2024, at Amerikahaus! Brown will examine photography's long history as tethered to global histories of antiblackness.
➡️ Learn more & register (free admission): www.amerikahaus.de/ausstellunge...