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Afropessimism’s Contributions to Black Studies

According to Frank Wilderson, Afropessimism contends that “Blacks are not Human subjects, but are instead structurally inert props, implements for

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

Where did Jim Crow segregation and civil rights activism take place? A great deal hinges on how this question gets

Historians have produced a remarkable body of literature reappraising the civil rights movement in the last two decades. And still,

Growing up, I’ve heard many definitions of the term racism, however just last year I read the best definition to