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New Attacks, New Resistance, and an Old Alliance Against the New Confederacy

November 7, 2019November 3, 2019 Aaron Jamal Activism, African Diaspora, black radical tradition, Black radicalism, Donald Trump, Politics, Resistance, white supremacy

The latest round of attacks by the openly white supremacist Trump government against indigenous people — and their resistance — is at

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There Is No ‘Relatively Benign’ Version of Settler-Colonialism

October 28, 2019October 19, 2019 Yannick Marshall African Diaspora, Anticolonialism, black politics, black protest, Canada, colonialism, Resistance

I might be made to agree with Erna Paris that using the term “genocide” in reference to Canada’s treatment of indigenous populations

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To Fulfill These Rights: A New Book About the Struggle Over Affirmative Action and Open Admissions

October 18, 2019October 17, 2019 J. T. Roane Activism, affirmative action, black protest, Resistance, student activism

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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‘Rhodes Must Fall’ and Decolonizing Education

October 1, 2019September 22, 2019 Nicholas Grant Activism, African Diaspora, Anticolonialism, Black Europe, black protest, decolonization, education, empire, race, reparations

Writing in 2006, the historian Manning Marable asserted that, “The Black public intellectual must actively engage the past in such

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Mickey Leland and Africa in American Politics: An Interview with Benjamin Talton

September 30, 2019September 30, 2019 Keisha N. Blain Activism, africa, African Diaspora, black intellectual history, black internationalism, Black political thought, black politics, black radical tradition, Black radicalism, Pan-Africanism, Politics, race

In today’s post, AAIHS President Keisha N. Blain interviews Benjamin Talton, an associate professor of History at Temple University, about his

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