Kiana T. Rubish

K. T. Rubish trains in African American history at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Her dissertation traces the connections between the Black family, emotions, and expressive material culture in the U.S. nineteenth century.

Content by Kiana T. Rubish

The Black Rugrats

The Gold Dust Twins advertising campaign used caricatured Black children to sell cleaning products, which reinforced racist stereotypes and white nostalgic myths of Black servitude in the 20th-century United States.