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V Efua Prince‘s work often takes an interdisciplinary form as history, poetry, drama, and performance, in order to transform the history of black women into political art. Prince is a professor of African American Studies at Wayne State University. She received her PhD from the University of Michigan in English Language and Literature and has served as a director of Black Studies at Allegheny College, the Avalon Professor of Humanities at Hampton University, a visiting scholar at the University of Virginia’s Carter G. Woodson Institute, and a fellow at Harvard University’s W. E. B. Du Bois Center. Her current work represents a refinement of themes she has been considering for more than 20 years, evident in both Burnin’ Down the House: Home in African American Literature (2005) and Daughter’s Exchange (2018). She is the co-author of Crazy As Hell: The Best Little Guide to Black History (2024), co-authored with Hoke Glover III and Kin: Practically True Stories (2024).