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Constructions of Africa in Early Soviet Children’s Literature

October 31, 2017November 4, 2017 Raquel G. Greene Black October, literature, Russian Revolution

This post is part of our online forum, “Black October,” on the Russian Revolution and the African Diaspora The political and social

Anti-racism in Early Soviet Visual Culture

October 31, 2017November 3, 2017 Christina Kiaer Black October, film, Russian Revolution

This post is part of our online forum, “Black October,” on the Russian Revolution and the African Diaspora Soviet Russia was once

The Rise of Incarceration in Los Angeles: An Interview with Kelly Lytle Hernandez

October 28, 2017October 31, 2017 Erica Sterling Los Angeles, mass incarceration

In today’s post, Erica Sterling, a PhD student in the Department of History at Harvard University, interviews Kelly Lytle Hernandez about

Protest against Donald Trump. Photo: Socialist Alternative.

White Supremacy, Nazism, and the Republican Party

October 19, 2017October 21, 2017 Jaimee A. Swift Politics, white supremacy

This past summer, hundreds of white supremacists and neo-Nazis mobilized in Charlottesville, Virginia to prove a point — that they were always here and

KKK members supporting Barry Goldwater’s campaign for the presidential nomination at the 1964 Republican National Convention. Source: Wikipedia.

The Black Press and the Ku Klux Klan

October 18, 2017October 21, 2017 Felix Harcourt black intellectual history, Racial Violence

“Crouching, cringing, shrinking from both physical and intellectual light,” Chandler Owen wrote, “the Klan is a true anthropoid germ which