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<\/a>Dr. Patrick Allen<\/p><\/div>\n
Published in June 2023, \u201cAfrican American Activism and Political Engagement,\u201d is a series of seven long-form essays on various aspects of Black political involvement and empowerment, followed by an encyclopedia that contains approximately 200 accredited entries on a variety of subjects related to African American political activism. The publication will feature Dr. Allen\u2019s encyclopedia entries on the following: \u201cBlack World\/Negro Digest\u201d; \u201cSharecropping\u201d; and \u201cWalter White.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe encyclopedia entries are aimed at a student audience\u2014high schoolers and college undergraduates\u2014and help achieve the critical work of introducing young people to important figures, events, publications, and other topics related to African American histories,\u201d Dr. Allen said.<\/p>\n
The book, \u201cAbortion in Popular Culture: A Call to Action\u201d was originally published in April of this year and brings together scholars who examine depictions of abortion in film, television, literature, and social media. Dr. Allen\u2019s contribution to the work is an analytic essay titled \u201c\u2018I gave her life\u2019: Black Women, Abortion, and Healing in Brit Bennett\u2019s ‘The Mothers.’\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBlack women’s voices and stories are too often obscured or erased in discussions about healthcare and reproduction, so I hope the chapter will draw readers to Bennett’s novel and to the historical and contemporary contexts regarding race and abortion that are essential to gaining a fuller picture of reproductive rights, narratives, access, and care in the US,\u201d Dr. Allen said.<\/p>\n
About Dr. Patrick Allen Elizabethtown College Assistant Professor of English Literature, Dr. Patrick Allen, has recently had his work appear in various scholarly publications. Dr. Allen\u2019s works are featured in the 2023 publications of \u201cAfrican American Activism and Political Engagement: An Encyclopedia of Empowerment,\u201d and \u201cAbortion in Popular Culture: A Call to Action.\u201d Published in June 2023, \u201cAfrican American […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":15150,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1338,774,775],"tags":[1408,1350],"class_list":["post-15147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics-and-research","category-arts-and-culture","category-campus","tag-elizabethtown","tag-etown","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15147"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15163,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15147\/revisions\/15163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>Dr. Allen specializes in African American literatures, multiethnic American literatures, critical race studies, Black feminisms, medical and health humanities, and graphic medicine. He has published on nineteenth-century Black medical women\u2019s writing as well as forced sterilization in the context of Toni Morrison\u2019s novel Home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"