“Why Aren’t Black People More Optimistic?”
In a 1968 interview, television personality Dick Cavett asked James Baldwin, renowned author-activist, what many white Americans at that time
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Intellectual Identity
#AAIHS2018: Reflecting on the Past’s Presence 3.0
I’m grateful to continue the tradition of offering an AAIHS conference summary again this year, as I did in 2016
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On Stanford’s All White Male History Conference
In December 1969, a group of historians organized the Coordinating Committee of Women Historians in the Profession, which, in 1995,
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The Absence of Political Economy in African Diaspora Studies
The Black Studies movement, inaugurated in the late 1960s by student- and community-based demands for a “more relevant education,” represented
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W.E.B. Du Bois and the Souls of Academic Folk
*This post is part of our online forum on W.E.B. Du Bois @ 150. In higher education debates, W.E.B. Du Bois is perhaps
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