Runaway Genres and the Global Legacy of Slavery
In her sweeping monograph Runaway Genres: The Global Afterlives of Slavery, Yogita Goyal takes up the legacy of the American
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Zoombombing University Lectures Brings Racism Home
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
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
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
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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