Sometime Between: Living Archives and the Power of Black Agency
This post is the introduction to our online roundtable on Judith Weisenfeld’s New World A-Coming In the opening pages of New World A-Coming: Black
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Race, Necropower, and Natural Disasters
In the last month, Hurricanes Harvey and Irma devastated Texas and Florida, killing scores of people and leaving many more
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Black Women, Agency, and the Civil War
Throughout much of the twentieth century historians framed the Civil War as a political and military driven historical process, which
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Bringing Archives of Death and Life into the Classroom
This fall I am teaching African American History Since 1863, starting with the event of Emancipation as a legal-juridical happening
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The Black Intellectual Tradition and Hip Hop
Pictured in profile on the cover The Narrative (2016), hip hop artist Sho Baraka calls upon listeners to draw connections between
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