American identity - AAIHS - Page 22

Go for Broke: #WallerCountySyllabus

September 18, 2015September 18, 2015 Phillip Luke Sinitiere

As a result of events in Ferguson related to the death of Michael Brown, last summer Georgetown University history professor

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Charnesia Corley & a Storify for the #blkwomensyllabus

August 13, 2015August 13, 2015 Jessica Marie Johnson #sayhername, black feminism, teaching

This past Monday, a young black woman in Texas named Charnesia Corley was stopped by the police as she ran

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What is Happening in Waller County?: Sandra Bland and the Sister Comrades Who #sayhername

August 12, 2015August 12, 2015 Phillip Luke Sinitiere

On Friday, July 10, 2015, just outside of the campus of Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) in Waller County, a

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Ta-Nehisi Coates, David Brooks, and the Master Narrative of American History

July 25, 2015July 25, 2015 Guy Emerson Mount capitalism, Ta-Nehisi Coates, teaching

I love Ta-Nehisi Coates. David Brooks…not so much. Biases disclosed, their squabble—if one can even call it that—exposes

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Nothing is Impossible: Black History and Black Futures as a Flag Falls

July 12, 2015July 12, 2015 Jessica Marie Johnson #BlackLivesMatter, #CharlestonSyllabus, Activism, Ferguson, freedom, reconstruction, slavery, South Carolina

At dawn on June 27, 2015, Bree Newsome (with support from local activists) scaled the flag pole in front of

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