... by Brown University and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2024 Black HBCUs possibility model queer Spelman women [V]isibility in and of itself does not erase a history of silence nor does it challenge the structure of power and domination, symbolic and material...

..., but the fact of the characters’ blackness was essential to identification with these hbcu -educated parents who could, in fact, exist and thrive economically in the post–Civil Rights era. Despite the assimilationist and universalist subject positions the Cosby family occupied, some performance of blackness...