Like Praying: Puerto Rico on a Map
“Although the plantation tradition has been relegated to the dustbin of history by some social theorists, it continues to survive
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Black Identity
The Enduring Crisis of Black Intellectuals In America
*This is the concluding essay of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History’s recent roundtable on Harold Cruse’s The Crisis of the Negro
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The Still Rejected Strain; or How Black Thought is Enough
*This post is part of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History’s recent roundtable on Harold Cruse’s The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual (1967). Click here to
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James Baldwin and The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual
*This post is part of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History’s recent roundtable on Harold Cruse’s The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual (1967). Click here to
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Zeek Burse’s “Broke Man” and the Legacy of the Radical Blues
On his 2017 album XXII, vocal artist Zeek Burse features Paralee Knight on a track Knight co-wrote called “Broke Man.” The song moves
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