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Race, Economics, and the Persistence of Slavery

March 5, 2018March 11, 2018 Jessica Parr #MasterlessMen, capitalism, Politics, racism, slavery, South

*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

Why White Southern Conservatives Need to Defend Confederate Monuments

March 3, 2018March 5, 2018 William Sturkey civil rights, South, white supremacy

Modern debates over Confederate monuments are not merely concerned with culture, historical memory, or racism. For many monument defenders, there

Film Blackness, Hollywood Whiteness

March 2, 2018March 3, 2018 Justin Gomer Black cinema, Black film, blackness, racism, white supremacy

“What if black film could be something other than embodied? What if black film was immaterial and bodiless? What if

Benedita da Silva, Brazil’s First Black Woman Senator and Governor

March 1, 2018March 3, 2018 Jaimee A. Swift Afro-Brazilians, black politics, Black women, Brazil, intersectionality

Female politicians are underrepresented in their leadership and their participation, and their contributions and successes in national, local, and civil

Online Roundtable: Keri Leigh Merritt’s “Masterless Men”

February 26, 2018March 11, 2018 AAIHS Editors #MasterlessMen, slavery

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