Black Bourgeois: A New Book about the Dilemma of Black Middle-Class Embodiment in the Post-Civil Rights Era
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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Chadwick Boseman and the Semiotics of Liberation
The actor’s gift is to see themselves through the eyes of their audience, while maintaining an internal sense of sincerity
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Civil Rights Activism in the “Jim Crow North”
Where did Jim Crow segregation and civil rights activism take place? A great deal hinges on how this question gets
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How Racist Ideas Shaped the Era of Reconstruction
Growing up, I’ve heard many definitions of the term racism, however just last year I read the best definition to
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Black Radical Abner Berry and the Limitations of Liberal Alliances
In the midst of the historical moment that has been the long 2020, we are witnessing several convergences which some
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