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Black Internationalism, Black Studies, and the Challenge to Hemispheric Jim Crow

March 14, 2022March 13, 2022 Kaysha Corinealdi black intellectual history, black internationalism, Jim Crow

This article first appeared in Made By History. The original can be accessed here. Across the country, state legislatures and school boards

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The Contours of Black Studies in American Public Schools

November 9, 2020November 9, 2020 Alexander Hyres Black Studies, education, ethnic studies, race, student activism

Jonathan Zimmerman, a historian of education at the University of Pennsylvania, recently published an op-ed in the Washington Post about

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Afropessimism’s Contributions to Black Studies

September 4, 2020September 17, 2020 Joseph Winters Afro-pessimism

According to Frank Wilderson, Afropessimism contends that “Blacks are not Human subjects, but are instead structurally inert props, implements for

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Ultimate Stakes and Realities: Program Building and the Future of Black Studies

November 11, 2019November 11, 2019 John Drabinski #WorkingtheBlackDiaspora, African Diaspora, Black Studies, education, pedagogy, teaching

*This post is part of our online forum organized by Drs. Charisse Burden-Stelly and Crystal Moten titled “Researching, Teaching, and Embodying

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Ernest Gaines and Black Studies as Refuge

January 30, 2019March 31, 2019 Biko Caruthers Afro-pessimism, Black Studies, Philosophy

Part I: Making the wind pink, and the grass Black In “The Sky is Gray,” James, a young Black boy,

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