The Wall of Respect: A New Book on Public Art and Black Liberation
This post is part of my blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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Black history
The Jim Crow Paradox: A New Book on the Associated Negro Press
This post is part of my blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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Remembering Black Women in St. Louis’s Pruitt-Igoe Housing Projects
An eerie calm has settled over the 57-acre lot where the Pruitt-Igoe Homes once loomed over St. Louis, Missouri. Today,
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African Americans and the Classics: An Introduction
The history of African American engagement with Classical history, literature, and philosophy has been fraught with controversy and complexity. Much
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Blackness, Pessimism, and the Human
There is a specter haunting black studies, black freedom struggles, humanism, and the politics of recognition. This recalcitrant specter currently
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