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In Pursuit of Knowledge: A New Book about Black Women’s Educational Activism

February 14, 2020February 9, 2020 AAIHS Editors Activism, black intellectual history, Black women, education, Resistance

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

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Watchmen, Haunting, and the Religious Imagination

February 12, 2020February 9, 2020 James Howard Hill, Jr. #AAIHSRoundtable, #Watchmen, race, Racial Violence, religion, white supremacy

*This post is part of our online forum organized by Ahmad Greene-Hayes on HBO’s hit series Watchmen.  “There are people

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Black Gods Among Us: In and Beyond HBO’s Watchmen

February 11, 2020February 9, 2020 Ahmad Greene-Hayes #Watchmen, Black Queers, race, Racial Violence, racism, religion, Resistance, Visual Culture, white supremacy

*This post is part of our online forum organized by Ahmad Greene-Hayes on HBO’s hit series Watchmen.  In the early

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On Nostalgia: HBO’s ‘Watchmen’ and Black Religion in Three Sacred Facts

February 10, 2020February 9, 2020 Rhon Manigault-Bryant #Watchmen, Black film, digital media, film, music, popular culture, religion

*This post is part of our online forum organized by Ahmad Greene-Hayes on HBO’s hit series Watchmen.  Warning: This essay

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The Black Avenger: ‘The Essential Trope of Atlantic Modernity’

February 6, 2020February 2, 2020 Benjamin Fagan #BlackPanther, African Diaspora, Caribbean, comic books, comics, Haiti, racism, white supremacy

In the years before and since the release and reception of the blockbuster 2018 film, Black Panther, the iconic Marvel

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