Decolonizing the Republic: A New Book on African and Caribbean Migrants in Postwar Paris
This post is part of a blog series I am editing, which announces the release of selected new works in African
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Black Protest
The NBA, Civil Rights, and Political Activism in Sports
We are only days from the opening tip of the 2016-2017 NBA season. Many fans are looking forward to watching
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Making the American Syllabus: Hashtag Syllabi in Historical Perspective
Hashtag syllabi such as #FergusonSyllabus and #CharlestonSyllabus assemble critical intellectual resources and promote collective study both within and outside of
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Managed Democracy and the Illusion of Politics
Now that another sordid election cycle is almost behind us, the pundit class has begun to issue the customary pleas
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Mass Incarceration and Its Mystification: A Review of The 13th
When prisoners in Alabama last spring proposed a national strike to protest “prison slavery,” they called out the infamous clause
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