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The Radical Tradition of Student Protest

January 15, 2019January 29, 2019 Mike Jirik black radical tradition, Haiti, Haitian Revolution, student activism

On the night of August 20, 2018, student protesters at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill toppled a

Black Resistance in Literature, Television, and Song

January 10, 2019January 29, 2019 Matthew Teutsch film, literature, slave trade, slavery

Looking upon the Wakandan sunset at the end of Ryan Coogler’s film Black Panther (2018), T’Challa holds his cousin N’Jadaka

Literacy, History, and African American Spirituals

December 13, 2018December 24, 2018 Karen Cook Bell #BlackLivesMatter, race, religion, Resistance, slavery

In his 1935 interview with Alan Lomax and Zora Neale Hurston, Wallace Quarterman, a ninety-one-year-old formerly enslaved man, shared a

Transness As A Category For Possibility

December 4, 2018December 7, 2018 Rachel Zellars #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackonBothSides, Gender

*This post is part of our online roundtable on C. Riley Snorton’s Black on Both Sides. The author discusses the second chapter: ‘Trans Capable:

Gynecology and the Ungendering of Black Women

December 4, 2018December 7, 2018 Alejandro S. Escalante #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackonBothSides, black lives matter, Gender, race, Racial Violence, racism

*This post is part of our online roundtable on C. Riley Snorton’s Black on Both Sides. The author discusses the first chapter: ‘Anatomically Speaking: