Joy Knowles @JoyMKnowles

@AlexWestPsych @DukeIDLab @kirby_lam @sarahegaither @DukePsychNeuro Aww thank you!! You too 🫶🏾

@alexismcameron @jon_ds7 ^^^

Small Work Joys: Workdays with students in the Duke Identity & Diversity Lab are never dull for Joy Knowles. ow.ly/GN6P50RakA8 @DukeIDLab @JoyMKnowles

As a historian whose work intersects with Ethnic and Gender Studies, I am disappointed by the careerism that has rendered some faculty of color and faculty in Ethnic and Gender Studies silent, given the history of our fields and the history of our positions.

The Tignon laws of the 18th century were laws that banned black women from exposing their natural hair in public. #InternationalWomensDay Their hairdos was obscuring the status of the white women and this threatened the social stability. The law would control colored women “who dressed too elegantly..” Resembling today’s West African Gele, a tignon is a type of head-covering. It is a large piece of material wrapped or tied around the head to form a kind of turban concealing the hair. Tignons were worn by free and slave Creole women of African descent in Louisiana from 1786. Historically, their prevalence was as a result of sumptuary laws passed in 1786 under Governor Esteban Rodriguez Miró. These prescribed and enforced appropriate public dress styles for women of color in a white-dominated society. Hence, they were made as a way of regulating the appearance of black women in the U.S. During the period, when black enslavement in America was at its peak, and places like New Orleans was unique in its high population of gens de couleur libres (free people of color), black women’s beauty and features often attracted white men who approached them as suitors. This enraged white women who perceived them as competitors. Evidently, African women competed openly with white women through elegant dressing, including adorning their textured hair with gems, beads, and other accents that made them stand out from white women and possessing great beauty. To take care of this perceived menace, series of sumptuary laws birthing the Tignon Law were put in place in order to stop white men from pursuing and engaging in affairs with women of colour, “while also being a class signifier,” 🖊️As the only admin behind this page, I try to research to educate. If you appreciate this effort, you can support to help the page thrive on ko-fi.com/africanarchives. Your support is deeply appreciated! (Or just the ko-fi page for articles/posts roundup)

Big news going into spring break! A HUGE CONGRATS to Rose, one of our amazing undergrad RAs, for receiving a @FulbrightPrgrm Fellowship in France! We could not be more proud!! @DukePsychNeuro @DukeU

Meet Anna Murray Douglass, first wife to Frederick Douglass. Anna helped Frederick escape enslavement. Anna was the first of her siblings to be born free after her parents were manumitted. When she met Frederick she was financially prepared to start a life with him but first, he needed freedom. By borrowing a freedman’s protection certificate from a friend and wearing the disguise of a sailor sewn by Anna, Frederick made his way to New York City by train, spending Anna’s money to buy the ticket. She continued to support his abolitionist work for the rest of her life. There is no Frederick Douglass without Anna Murray Douglass. Protect Black women at all costs. Anna Murray Douglass was an American abolitionist, member of the Underground Railroad, and the first wife of Frederick Douglass, from 1838 to her death. In the 1830s, when a teenaged Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was enslaved in the Baltimore household of Hugh Auld, teaching himself, painstakingly and largely in secret, to read and write, a young Black woman named Anna Murray was also at work in that city, shouldering the domestic labor of white households. The families of both these young people had been torn apart by the practice of slavery. Frederick had been separated from his mother so early his memories of her were mere shadows and fragments, and again parted from his maternal grandparents as a young child, “given” by the owner of his plantation birthplace on Maryland’s Eastern Shore to a family member in Baltimore. Anna was the eighth of 12 children—the first who was born free, just a month after her parents’ manumission in rural Denton, MD. She moved to Baltimore at 17 to earn a wage. It was around this time that Anna and Frederick met, perhaps in church (the details are lost to history), and hatched a plan. Frederick took a train to New York City using false papers, Anna followed shortly after, and the two married there in the home of abolitionist David Ruggles in 1838. 🖋️🖊️As the only admin behind this page, I try to research to educate. If you appreciate this effort, you can support to help the page thrive on ko-fi.com/africanarchives. Your support is deeply appreciated! Or just follow the page for articles.

Thank you so much to everyone who came to my poster this year! It’s exciting to see so much engagement!

Did you know Sesame Street was originally created for black and brown inner city kids? A THREAD

Over 1000 Palestinian children, forsaken by the world, killed in 10 days. Thousands more orphaned. Whole families wiped from the registry. Call for a ceasefire now. Stop the genocide by the Israeli government. Israelis, pls, you can’t be okay with what they’re doing in your name

I have the best students @DukeU! Out of all of the places students could highlight that makes their time here amazing, Allison, one of my undergrad RAs, chose my @DukeIDLab!! 🥹 The whole reason I am faculty is for my students—thank you, Allison! today.duke.edu/2023/10/duke-h…

We had such a great time recruiting at the @lifeandscience museum during the @DukeHospital Teddy Bear Hospital event! It was exciting to connect with several families and talk about our research @DukePsychNeuro! Check out these scientist drawings! Thanks to those who stopped by!

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Happy new school year from the lab! Our @DukePsychNeuro department welcome back party was a great excuse to kick off the new year! Can’t wait for all of our RAs to come back to the lab next week! 📚✏️📌

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Wishing a happy birthday to our outstanding PI @sarahegaither ! Her leadership and positive attitude make our research happen, and there's no one better to make our lab family a fun place to be!!🥳🎂🤩

The market is brutal and unfair. If you DON'T land what you wanted, it is not a reflection of your brilliance, prowess, or worth. If you DO land what you wanted, it is not a reflection of your brilliance, prowess, or worth.

We had a great time @ShopSouthpoint recruiting new families for our research over the weekend! Lots of cool science going on, so let us know if you have a child interested in participating!