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A deep exploration how Black women create horror that spawns a new knowledge of the genre that worries the intersections of race and gender to gain a better understanding, and continue the ongoing conversation as well as activity in the Black Women's Horror Renaissance. --Graveyard Shift Sisters BOOK CORNER: Author highlights influence of black women in horror by Marissa Wells--LA Wave Discusses black women of the Americas and Britain as creators and characters in the horror genre. --Chronicle Students tap into popular culture to explore theories of race and gender Searching for Sycorax mention--UTSA Today Author Kinitra D. Brooks was featured in an article in The Cut on a similar issue of black women in popular culture, entitled Beyonc Is the Leonardo da Vinci of Instagram. --Emilia Petrarca TheCut.com As an avid fan of science fiction, horror, and fantasy, I found Searching for Sycorax's interrogation of the erasure of black women in mainstream horror compelling, timely, and significant. --LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant coeditor of Womanist and Black Feminist Responses to Tyler Perry's Productions Searching for Sycorax is unlike anything I have ever read. Brooks' excavation of Black women's presence in horror is a ground-breaking, game changing must read for scholars and aficionados alike. --Susana M. Morris author of Close Kin and Distant Relatives: The Paradox of Respectability in Black Women's Literature

Author Kinitra D. Brooks was featured in an article in The Cut on a similar issue of black women in popular culture, entitled Beyonce Is the Leonardo da Vinci of Instagram. --Emilia Petrarca TheCut.com Searching for Sycorax is unlike anything I have ever read. Brooks' excavation of Black women's presence in horror is a ground-breaking, game changing must read for scholars and aficionados alike. --Susana M. Morris author of Close Kin and Distant Relatives: The Paradox of Respectability in Black Women's Literature As an avid fan of science fiction, horror, and fantasy, I found Searching for Sycorax's interrogation of the erasure of black women in mainstream horror compelling, timely, and significant. --LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant coeditor of Womanist and Black Feminist Responses to Tyler Perry's Productions

BOOK CORNER: Author highlights influence of black women in horror by Marissa Wells--LA Wave Discusses black women of the Americas and Britain as creators and characters in the horror genre. --Chronicle A deep exploration how Black women create horror that spawns a new knowledge of the genre that worries the intersections of race and gender to gain a better understanding, and continue the ongoing conversation as well as activity in the Black Women's Horror Renaissance. --Graveyard Shift Sisters Students tap into popular culture to explore theories of race and gender Searching for Sycorax mention--UTSA Today Author Kinitra D. Brooks was featured in an article in The Cut on a similar issue of black women in popular culture, entitled Beyonc Is the Leonardo da Vinci of Instagram. --Emilia Petrarca TheCut.com As an avid fan of science fiction, horror, and fantasy, I found Searching for Sycorax's interrogation of the erasure of black women in mainstream horror compelling, timely, and significant. --LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant coeditor of Womanist and Black Feminist Responses to Tyler Perry's Productions Searching for Sycorax is unlike anything I have ever read. Brooks' excavation of Black women's presence in horror is a ground-breaking, game changing must read for scholars and aficionados alike. --Susana M. Morris author of Close Kin and Distant Relatives: The Paradox of Respectability in Black Women's Literature

-As an avid fan of science fiction, horror, and fantasy, I found Searching for Sycorax's interrogation of the erasure of black women in mainstream horror compelling, timely, and significant.---LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant -coeditor of Womanist and Black Feminist Responses to Tyler Perry's Productions -

Searching for Sycorax is unlike anything I have ever read. Brooks' excavation of Black women's presence in horror is a ground-breaking, game changing must read for scholars and aficionados alike. --Susana M. Morris author of Close Kin and Distant Relatives: The Paradox of Respectability in Black Women's Literature As an avid fan of science fiction, horror, and fantasy, I found Searching for Sycorax's interrogation of the erasure of black women in mainstream horror compelling, timely, and significant. --LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant coeditor of Womanist and Black Feminist Responses to Tyler Perry's Productions -As an avid fan of science fiction, horror, and fantasy, I found Searching for Sycorax's interrogation of the erasure of black women in mainstream horror compelling, timely, and significant.---LeRhonda S. Manigault-Bryant -coeditor of Womanist and Black Feminist Responses to Tyler Perry's Productions -

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KINITRA D. BROOKS is an associate professor of English at the University of Texas, San Antonio.

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