Race, Class, and Television: A First Look at Brazil’s Dystopic Drama 3%
3% is Netflix’s latest original series ordered up from Latin America, and the first from Brazil. Set in a dystopic
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Meaning of freedom
W.E.B. Du Bois, The Black Flame, and the Struggle Ahead
Reading W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Black Flame trilogy in the months after the June 17, 2015 massacre at Emmanuel AME
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The American Colonization Society: 200 Years of the “Colonizing Trick”
Two hundred years ago this week, dozens of the nation’s most powerful men met in the Davis Hotel in Washington
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A Compact for the Good of America? Slavery and the Three-Fifths Compromise, Part II
This is the second part of a two-part survey on the Electoral College, race, and slavery. This post explores the
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A Compact for the Good of America? Slavery and the Three-Fifths Compromise
The recent election has renewed interest in the history of the Electoral College, as evident in Christopher F. Petrella’s excellent
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