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The Subversive Praxis of Black Beauty and Wealth

October 20, 2017October 24, 2017 Janell Hobson black feminism, Black women, Caribbean, Gender

Having rocked the cosmetics industry last month with her new line of products, Fenty Beauty, pop star Rihanna (née Robyn

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Harold Cruse’s Ruthless Criticism

October 20, 2017October 21, 2017 Andrew Hartman black intellectual history, black nationalism, Black radicalism, Harold Cruse

*This post is part of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History’s recent roundtable on Harold Cruse’s The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual (1967). Click here to

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Calculating the Cost of Hurricanes in the Caribbean

October 5, 2017October 8, 2017 Sasha Turner Caribbean, colonialism, Cuba, imperialism, slavery, tourism

“The turquoise waters still glimmer in the bright sun, and the beaches remain breezy and alluring.” So begins a recent

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Zora Neale Hurston, Diaspora, and the Memory of Hurricanes

September 14, 2017September 16, 2017 Janell Hobson Black women, Caribbean, Gender, religion

September has become the month to remember disasters. Apart from September 11, there is the memory of the aftermath of

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Echoes of the 1960s: SNCC and White Liberal Participation in Anti-Racist Movements

September 12, 2017September 14, 2017 Ashley Farmer Activism, black politics, Black Power, black radical tradition, Civil Rights Movement

This first summer under the Trump regime resembles the long red-hot summers of the past. It has been filled with

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