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Blain Roberts is a professor of history at California State University, Fresno, where she teaches courses in U.S. and women's history. Her first book, Pageants, Parlors, and Pretty Women: Race and Beauty in the Twentieth-Century South (University of North Carolina Press, 2014), was named a 2014 Publishers Weekly Notable African American title and won the 2014 Willie Lee Rose Prize for the best book in southern history written by a woman. She is co-author of Denmark Vesey's Garden: Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy with Ethan J. Kytle (The New Press, April 2018). She has written articles for the Journal of Southern History and Southern Cultures and op-eds for the New York Times, The Atlantic, and the Chronicle of Higher Education.
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