Neal A. Lester

Banning the Fans: Policing Black Women, Policing Black Joy

ABSTRACT In many public self‐segregating/segregated Black spaces—cookouts, family reunions, wedding receptions, fraternity and sorority gatherings, birthday parties, HBCU and Divine 9 professional conferences, some workplaces, and even cruises—803Fresh's 2024 “Boots on the Ground...