Ontological Terror: A New Book on Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipation
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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Black Identity
Black Male Genius and the Distortion of Black History
In the aftermath of Kanye West’s recent media blitz, there was considerable media attention paid to his parroting and amplifying
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The Globalization of American Racial Exclusion
In hindsight, historians of American immigration will be pressed to name the first two decades of the twenty-first century as
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Black on Both Sides: A New Book on the Racial History of Trans Identity
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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Louise Thompson Patterson and Black Radical Politics
On September 16, 1984, exactly one week after Louise Thompson Patterson turned eighty-three years old, an extravaganza was held in
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