She Refuses to be Comforted: Black Madonnas, Black Study, and Birth in the Time of Death
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245 Beacon Street, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN DIASPORA STUDIES PROGRAM
2025-2026 NEW DIRECTIONS LECTURE SERIES:
Amey Victoria Adkin-Jones
Assistant Professor of Theology and Africana Studies
Emory University
"Mary is Black." This lecture introduces this primary claim of Immaculate Misconceptions: A Black Mariology, to engage the significance of Black women's reproductive legacies for liberation theology through the work of Mary—and specifically the Black Madonna—in the Christian tradition.