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Zoombombing University Lectures Brings Racism Home

March 31, 2020March 31, 2020 Oneka LaBennett pedagogy, Racial Violence, racism, white supremacy

Recently, Zoom classes held by professors at the University of Southern California (USC) and other schools were violently disrupted by “Zoombombers” who

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Online Roundtable—Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power

March 31, 2020March 29, 2020 AAIHS Editors #AAIHSRoundtable, #OccupiedTerritory

April 6–10, 2020 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is collaborating with the Journal of Civil and

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Black Queer Asylum and The Year of Return

March 30, 2020March 29, 2020 Celeste Henery African Diaspora, Black Queer Identity, Immigration, LGBT

In the wake of Black History Month, I turn towards Black relations: of blood, of nation, of necessity, and the

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Cuban Literature in the Age of Black Insurrection: A New Book on Afro-Cuban Writers and Diasporic Religions

March 27, 2020March 27, 2020 AAIHS Editors Afro-Cubans, Age of Revolutions, Haitian Revolution, literature

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

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Surviving Slavery: Contests Over Bondage in Berbice

March 26, 2020March 22, 2020 Andrew Kettler African Diaspora, law, slavery, South America

Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean concentrates on the question of agency, whereby narratives of life on plantations in Berbice

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