Paul Laurence Dunbar, Racial Uplift, and Collective Identity
On December 8, 1896, Paul Laurence Dunbar met with John Wesley Cromwell, Alexander Crummell, Walter B. Hayson, and Kelly Miller
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Attack Dogs and the History of Racial Violence
In 1970 French author Romain Gary published his novel White Dog, a semi-biographical work that imaginatively recreated the author’s experiences
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The Radical Hope of Octavia Butler
When I assigned Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower for my Introduction to Fiction classes this fall, I was fearful
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Black Pioneers and the Struggle for Equality on the Frontier
At the turn of the 20th century historian Frederick Jackson Turner argued, “[t]he frontier is the line of most rapid
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Reclaiming the Black Past: A New Book on the Use and Misuse of African American History
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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