Revisiting Lerone Bennett Jr.’s ‘Forced Into Glory’
The work of popular historian Lerone Bennett Jr. falls within a longer ‘anti-Lincoln tradition’ of African American intellectual thought–a tradition
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Race
Black Women in Nineteenth-Century France: An Interview with Historian Robin Mitchell
In today’s post, blogger Annette Joseph-Gabriel interviews Robin Mitchell about her new book, Vénus Noire: Black Women and Colonial Fantasies
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Chadwick Boseman and the Semiotics of Liberation
The actor’s gift is to see themselves through the eyes of their audience, while maintaining an internal sense of sincerity
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Afropessimism’s Contributions to Black Studies
According to Frank Wilderson, Afropessimism contends that “Blacks are not Human subjects, but are instead structurally inert props, implements for
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The History of Black College Football
Reflecting on his time as a member of the Clark College (now Clark Atlanta University) football team, journalist Eric “Ric”
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