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A Riot in the Social Order: On Race, Religion, and Power

February 2, 2018February 5, 2018 J. T. Roane religion

*A version of this essay originally appeared on The Immanent Frame, a forum of the Social Science Research Council, as part

African American Novelist Frank Yerby’s Writings on Race

January 31, 2018February 4, 2018 Matthew Teutsch Civil War, literature, poverty, reconstruction, South

African American novelist Frank Yerby grew up in Augusta, Georgia, where he attended Paine College. Later he attended Fisk University and taught briefly

Harper’s Weekly, “The Union As It Was; The Lost Cause, Worse than Slavery” (1874) by Thomas Nast. Photo: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Race, Freedom, and Extermination in America and the Atlantic World

January 30, 2018February 2, 2018 Jessica Parr black rebellion, race, slave trade, slavery

Kay Wright Lewis’s new book, A Curse Upon the Nation: Race, Freedom, and Extermination in America and the Atlantic World (University

Remembering the Black Radical Press

January 25, 2018January 30, 2018 Christopher Tinson Black Arts Movement, Black Panther Party, black politics, Black Power, black press, Black radicalism, Third World Women’s Alliance

Print culture, including journals, magazines, newsletters, pamphlets, posters, and books, was instrumental in advancing the politics, aesthetics, and criticism of

The Historical Erasure of Violence Against Black Women

January 24, 2018January 30, 2018 Denise Lynn black feminism, black protest, Black women, Communism, NAACP, racism, sexual violence, South, white supremacy

The #MeToo movement and the recent attention to Recy Taylor’s 1944 rape has drawn much needed attention to the consistent