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Marissa Boglin

University of Alabama
African American rhetoric Spatial rhetoric Black education history Public schooling and segregation Rhetorics of resistance Critical geography Community literacy Black feminist theory Southern studies Archival research
My research explores the spatial rhetorics of Black education in the American South, particularly how African American communities in Birmingham, Alabama, have used educational spaces as sites of resistance, innovation, and rhetorical self-definition. I engage archival research, Black feminist rhetorical theory, and critical geography to examine how race, place, and pedagogy intersect historically and presently.