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Ku Klux Klan meeting, South Carolina, 1951. Source: KulturCritic.

Race, Racism, and Southern Myths

October 4, 2017October 8, 2017 William Sturkey Jim Crow, Migration, police brutality, Post-Civil War, Racial Violence, racism, reconstruction, slavery, South, white supremacy

In 2010, two historians edited a collection of thirteen essays written by white historians about “The Myth of Southern Exceptionalism.”

"Chicago race riot - beginning of the riot; White and Negroes leaving Twenty-ninth Street beach after the drowning of Eugene Williams." 1922. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library Digital Collections.

Sex, Swimming, and Chicago’s Racial Divide

October 3, 2017October 8, 2017 Betsy Schlabach Chicago, Racial Violence, racism, sexuality

Sunday, July 27, 1919, was a hot, sweltering, sunny day at Chicago’s Twenty-Ninth Street Beach. When fourteen-year-old Eugene Williams, who

Intersectional Health Equity in Brazil: An Interview with Kia Lilly Caldwell

October 2, 2017October 5, 2017 Erica Williams Afro-Brazilians, Brazil, health, intersectionality, South America

In today’s post, Erica L. Williams, an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Spelman College, interviews Kia Lilly Caldwell about her new

Online Forum: The Russian Revolution and the African Diaspora

October 1, 2017October 5, 2017 AAIHS Editors Black October, Russia, Russian Revolution

Black Perspectives, the blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum on Black October: The Russian Revolution

Call for Submissions: New Blog Series on The Black Panther

October 1, 2017October 3, 2017 AAIHS Editors #comicsandrace

“The World of the Black Panther” Guest Editors: Julian Chambliss and Walter Greason On June 9, 2017, the face of the Marvel Cinematic