Bringing Archives of Death and Life into the Classroom
This fall I am teaching African American History Since 1863, starting with the event of Emancipation as a legal-juridical happening
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Primary Sources
Writing an Organizational History of the Black Panthers: An Author’s Response
This post is part of our online roundtable on Robyn Spencer’s The Revolution Has Come Although I received my formal
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Contested Bodies: A New Book on Black Motherhood and Slavery in Jamaica
This post is part of my blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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Gerald Horne’s Insurgent African Diaspora
This post is part of our online roundtable on Gerald Horne’s Black Radical History In 2011, Gerald Horne, reflecting on
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Fugitivity, Refusal, and Visual Captivity: A Review of Tina Campt’s Listening to Images
I will never forget the unnerving feeling that washed over me when I first saw Sandra Bland’s mug shot circulating
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