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Race Women Internationalists and Global Black Freedom Struggles

October 30, 2018November 3, 2018 Shelby M. Sinclair Activism, African Diaspora, black feminism, black intellectual history, black internationalism, Black women, Caribbean, decolonization, Gender, race, racism

In her 1932 article entitled “The Awakening of Race Consciousness among Black Students,” Afro-Jamaican intellectual Una Marson advanced a theory

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Feminism, Gender Politics, and Black Nationalist Women

September 27, 2018October 1, 2018 Lisa Levenstein black internationalism, black nationalism, black women's internationalism, Garveyism, Set the World on Fire

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Keisha N. Blain’s Set the World on Fire Keisha N. Blain’s Set the World on

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Black Nationalist Women’s Political and Intellectual Labor

September 25, 2018October 1, 2018 Kennetta Hammond Perry Amy Ashwood Garvey, black nationalism, black women's internationalism, Set the World on Fire

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Keisha N. Blain’s Set the World on Fire How does our historical understanding

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James Baldwin’s Ideas and Activism during the 1980s

September 20, 2018September 25, 2018 Aderson Francois black intellectual history, James Baldwin, literature, race, racism

James Baldwin died on November 30, 1987, at his home in Saint Paul de Vence, a small village on the

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Pan-Africanism: A New Book on the History of a Global Movement

September 12, 2018September 16, 2018 Keisha N. Blain African Diaspora, black politics, Black Power, Malcolm X, Marcus Garvey, Pan-Africanism, W.E.B. Du Bois

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

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