The Ruth Simms Hamilton African Diaspora Series: An Interview with Quito Swan and Glenn Chambers
In today’s post, I sit down with Professors Quito Swan and Glenn Chambers to discuss their book series on the
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Black history
Black Republicans: A New Book on the Transformation of the GOP
This post is part of a blog series I am editing, which announces the release of selected new works in African
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Mass Incarceration and Its Mystification: A Review of The 13th
When prisoners in Alabama last spring proposed a national strike to protest “prison slavery,” they called out the infamous clause
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Haunting Harmonies: Filmic Sounds in 12 Years a Slave and The Birth of a Nation
The recent release of The Birth of a Nation (Fox Searchlight, 2016) has resulted in a surprising blaze of dissonant
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Why the Academic Achievement Gap is a Racist Idea
“Standardized tests have become the most effective racist weapon ever devised to objectively degrade Black minds and legally exclude their
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