The Legend of the Black Mecca: A New Book on Politics and Class in Atlanta
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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Racism
Black Radicalism and Voices of Resistance
First published at the end of 1971, Angela Davis’ If They Come in the Morning is the kind of urgent tract
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Centrist Liberalism and the Myths of the American Past
We are now a full year into the Trump Administration, and a serious ideological challenge has yet to be leveled
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Dismantling Whiteness as the Beauty Standard
Miss Jamaica Davina Bennett rejected Eurocentric beauty ideals when she sported her afro at this year’s Miss Universe Pageant. Bennett had
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Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
When I first heard about the “#BankBlack movement” I knew I smelled a rat. So I wrote about it. After reading Mehrsa
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