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Revisiting the Poor People’s Campaign and Its Legacy

September 17, 2019September 16, 2019 Bobby Cervantes Activism, black intellectual history, black politics, black protest, Black radicalism, capitalism, civil rights, poor, poverty, Resistance, Social Movements

Universal health care, a public-job guarantee, and massive wealth redistribution are not just buzzwords in cable news interviews as myriad

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White Women Slave Owners, Economics, and the Law

July 25, 2019September 16, 2019 Terri L. Snyder capitalism, race, Race and Economic History, Racial Violence, racism, slave trade, slavery, South

In a treatise published in 1681, Anglican clergyman Morgan Godwyn, who had ministered to parishes in Virginia and Barbados, recounted

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The Common Wind of the African Diaspora

July 5, 2019July 5, 2019 Kevin Dawson academia, academic publishing, African Diaspora, black intellectual history, Caribbean, Cuba, Haiti, race, Resistance, slavery

Julius Scott’s The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution is one of the academy’s worst-kept secrets.

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Lift Every Voice and Sing: On The Power of the Black National Anthem

July 4, 2019July 3, 2019 Erica Ball education, James Weldon Johnson, music, NAACP, segregation

“Lift Every Voice and Sing” is a song that most Black Americans of my generation know so deeply that it

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Liberalism, Emancipation, and the Atlantic World

June 27, 2019June 26, 2019 Adriana Chira Activism, African Diaspora, black politics, capitalism, Caribbean, Haiti, nation, race, slavery

George Hackett’s trajectory simmered with the tensions that defined the Age of Emancipations. Hackett was born at the turn of

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