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Corporate Influence and the Legacy of Black Power

November 6, 2018November 11, 2018 E. James West Black Panther Party, Black Power, black protest, Black radicalism, capitalism, police violence, Resistance

My recent piece for Black Perspectives examined the relationship between Nike and Spike Lee in the wake of the company’s

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‘Sexuality and Slavery’: A New Book on Intimate Histories in the Americas

November 5, 2018November 11, 2018 J. T. Roane sexuality, slavery

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

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Afro-German during the Third Reich. Photo: Propaganda-Pravada.

German Appropriation of Black Popular Culture

November 2, 2018November 3, 2018 Jamele Watkins African Diaspora, Black Europe, Germany, masculinity

Black German Studies has focused on women’s writing over the past thirty years. Priscilla Layne’s White Rebels in Black is

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A Black Womanist Requiem for Katie G. Cannon

October 31, 2018November 3, 2018 Eboni Marshall Turman Black women, black women scholars, race, religion

Katie G. Cannon’s untimely death, has compelled me to begin this reflection at the funeral. Not hers; but my first funeral

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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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