Search Results for: theorizing race

“The Power and Importance of Ideas:” Grace Lee Boggs’s Revolutionary Vision

October 18, 2015October 18, 2015 Ashley Farmer

In the opening lines of her autobiography, Living for Change, Grace Lee Boggs remarked: “Had I not been born female

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“More and More Influential”: Frederick Douglass and Donald Trump

February 8, 2017February 12, 2017 Juliet Hooker Donald Trump, Frederick Douglass

As President Trump recently said on the occasion of Black History Month, Frederick Douglass “is being recognized by more and

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On Michelle Wright’s Physics of Blackness

April 20, 2016April 20, 2016 Guest Poster blackness, feminism

This is a guest post by Julietta Hua, an Associate Professor in the Department of Women and Gender Studies at

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The Continuities of Beatriz Nascimento’s Black Radical Thought

August 30, 2024August 7, 2024 Bryce Henson #AAIHSRoundtable, #TheDialecticIsInTheSea, Afro-Brazilians, Brazil, poetry

This post is part of our roundtable on The Dialectic is in the Sea. It is not a stretch to

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African Deep Thought

April 3, 2024March 29, 2024 M. Keith Claybrook, Jr. African Diaspora, black intellectual history, Black Studies

  The recent increased attention given to understanding racism, critical white studies, and anti-racist politics must also include an investigation

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