Race, Economics, and the Persistence of Slavery
*This post is part of our roundtable on Keri Leigh Merritt’s Masterless Men. Since Eric Williams’s classic study Slavery and Capitalism (1944), historians
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Gender, Civil Rights, and the Case of Odell Waller
Pauli Murray is a central figure of women’s activism. Her career spanned five decades and included work in the labor
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Online Roundtable: Keri Leigh Merritt’s “Masterless Men”
March 5-9, 2018 Black Perspectives, the blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting a roundtable on Keri Leigh Merritt’s Masterless Men: Poor
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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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The Communist Party’s Role in the British Anti-Racist Movement
My new book British Communism and the Politics of Race uncovers the prominent anti-racist role that the Communist Party of
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