Pedagogy for the World: Black Studies in the Classroom and Beyond
One of the original aims of Black Studies (and the related fields of African-American and Africana Studies) was its pedagogical
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Black Identity
The Problem of Equality: Black Communists and the Women’s Charter
Black Communist Thyra Edwards was not privy to the language of equity, intersectionality, and identity politics used today to describe
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The American Colonization Society: 200 Years of the “Colonizing Trick”
Two hundred years ago this week, dozens of the nation’s most powerful men met in the Davis Hotel in Washington
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A Compact for the Good of America? Slavery and the Three-Fifths Compromise, Part II
This is the second part of a two-part survey on the Electoral College, race, and slavery. This post explores the
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Black Europe: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis
Co-authored by Kennetta Hammond Perry and Kira Thurman On the cover of the October 6 issue of Tip Magazine, a
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