The Complexities and Contradictions of the Nation of Islam
This post is part of our online roundtable on Ula Taylor’s The Promise of Patriarchy In The Promise of Patriarchy: Women
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Ontological Terror: A New Book on Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipation
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History
The Weeping Time: Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History opens up with a list of chattel—the names
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Black on Both Sides: A New Book on the Racial History of Trans Identity
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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Louise Thompson Patterson and Black Radical Politics
On September 16, 1984, exactly one week after Louise Thompson Patterson turned eighty-three years old, an extravaganza was held in
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