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The Role of Black Women in the Making of a White Argentine Republic

July 2, 2020June 28, 2020 Christina Proenza Coles African Diaspora, Black women, Latin America, Resistance

“The discovery of personal whiteness among the world’s peoples is a very modern thing,” observed W.E.B. Du Bois, “a nineteenth

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Excavating Black Queer Thought: A Pride Bibliography II

June 23, 2020June 21, 2020 Emerald Rutledge black feminism, Black Queer Identity, Black Queers, film, Gender, LGBT, literature, race, sexuality, trans identity

In honor of Pride Month 2020, I wanted to extend the list of texts from the bibliography offered last year,

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‘Duty Beyond the Battlefield’: A New Book About Black Soldiers’ Role in Shaping Early Civil Rights

May 25, 2020June 17, 2020 AAIHS Editors black soldiers, civil rights, military

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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Intimate Historical Practice

May 18, 2020May 17, 2020 Sarah Haley #WaywardLives, archives, black feminism, Black Studies, Black women, blackness, Gender, Historical Memory, literature, race, slavery

*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with the Journal of African American History. Saidiya Hartman has stacked

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Landscape as Witness: Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park

May 6, 2020May 15, 2020 Perri Meldon Harriet Tubman, Historical Memory, museums, slavery, Underground Railroad

In early March 2020, I drove past miles of dredged canals and gangly loblolly pines toward the visitor center of

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