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#AAIHS2017: Expanding the Boundaries of Black Intellectual History

March 11, 2017March 14, 2017 Brandon Byrd #AAIHS2017

The past year has certainly been an exciting one for the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS). In the months

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Race and Imperialism in Canada in the 1960s

March 3, 2017March 6, 2017 Paul Hébert Canada, imperialism

In recent years, scholars and activists in Canada have been drawing more attention to the country’s often-unacknowledged history of slavery.

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Towards Usable Histories of the Black Commons

February 28, 2017March 2, 2017 J. T. Roane capitalism, Racial Capitalism

Since the 1980s, policymakers have extended the market logics of risk and profit to encompass all the basic necessities for

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Man-Child Under the Moonlight: Black Masculinity in the Promised Land

February 28, 2017March 3, 2017 Stephen G. Hall Black film, film, masculinity, sexuality

Sunday night’s mishap at the Oscars, which mistakenly gave the award for Best Picture to La La Land, reflects the

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The Transatlantic Journey of South Carolina Freedman James Churchwill Vaughan

February 26, 2017February 28, 2017 Lisa A. Lindsay black, Immigration, West Africa

From the eighteenth century to our own time, a range of African Americans have traveled “back” to Africa in hopes

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