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“The House on Coco Road”: A New Film on Family, Race, and U.S. Intervention in Grenada

May 2, 2017May 8, 2017 Michael T. Barry Jr. #FilmFeatures, Black film, Caribbean, film, Grenada

This post is part of a new blog series that announces the release of new films in African American History

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Protest against the Trump administration, February 2017. Photo: Joe Flood/Flickr.

Historical Amnesia and the Burden of the Euro-American Past in the Age of Trump

April 29, 2017May 2, 2017 Westenley Alcenat Donald Trump, racism, racist ideas, Trumpism

In the last 100 days since he began his presidency, President Trump’s administration has unleashed a powerful nativist movement anchored

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Rosa Parks. Photo: Encyclopedia Britannica.

Rosa Parks and the Image of Respectability

April 26, 2017May 1, 2017 Katharina Fackler #AAIHSRoundtable, #politicsofrespectability, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, racism

This post is part of our online roundtable on Black Women and the Politics of Respectability. Since the day she

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Race, Media, and Black Womanhood in the Early Twentieth Century

April 24, 2017April 28, 2017 Jane Rhodes #AAIHSRoundtable, #politicsofrespectability, Black women, Gender, racism

This post is part of our online roundtable on Black Women and the Politics of Respectability. The politics of respectability

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Two African American women, half-length portrait, facing each other (Daniel Murray Collection, Library of Congress).

Black Women and the Politics of Respectability: An Introduction

April 24, 2017April 27, 2017 Guest Poster #AAIHSRoundtable, #politicsofrespectability, Black women, Gender, racism

by Ralina L. Joseph & Jane Rhodes In the Spring of 2014 the two of us, former dissertation advisor and

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