Stanford Humanities Center
Traci Parker is an associate professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is the author of Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement: Workers, Consumers, and Civil Rights from the 1930s to the 1980s (University of North Carolina Press, 2019). She earned her PhD in history from the University of Chicago.
SHC Project
Beyond Loving: Love, Sex, and Marriage in the Black Freedom Movement
Beyond Loving: Love, Sex, and Marriage in the Black Freedom Movement examines African American romantic relationships in the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements to understand how African Americans loved, dreamed, and remade their lives in the revolutionary 1960s and 1970s. Beyond Loving reveals that these movements not only generated important and lasting shifts between African Americans and whites but also among African American men and women and revolutionized gender, sex and sexuality, family, community, and activism.
