Recent Works on Black Women, Gender, and Global Garveyism
In my recent review of Adam Ewing’s book, The Age of Garvey: How a Jamaican Activist Created a Mass Movement
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When Slaves Go on Strike: W.E.B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction 80 Years Later
Slaves freed themselves. With this majestic assertion in 1935, W.E.B. Du Bois all but cemented Black Reconstruction as one of
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On September 18, 1857, Conrad Deisenoth became a citizen of the United States. This print, held at the Library Company
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In my previous two posts, I have made an attempt to better understand early African American intellectual history, first providing
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Thinking About the ‘X’
As the year winds down, I find myself, like my AAIHS colleague Noelle Trent, reflecting on 2015, on conversations that
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