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Online Forum: The Futures of Frederick Douglass

April 15, 2019August 12, 2022 AAIHS Editors #DouglassForward

April 22-26, 2019 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum on innovative approaches

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A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None: A New Book About Race and Geology

April 12, 2019August 12, 2022 Leah Kaplan Anthropocene, black feminism, environment, geography

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

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Nation Time: ‘A Nation Within A Nation’ At Twenty

April 4, 2019August 12, 2022 Michael O. West black politics, Black Power, book review, race

*This post is part of our online roundtable celebrating the 20-year anniversary of the publication of Komozi Woodard’s A Nation Within

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Rethinking Black Life on Turtle Island

March 27, 2019August 12, 2022 Rachel Zellars African Diaspora, Canada, Resistance, slavery

The history of Black peoples in Canada prior to the mid-nineteenth century is a complex and transnational story. In popular

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Black Women’s Resistance to Sexual Violence

March 22, 2019August 12, 2022 Cécile Yézou archives, black feminism, Black women, Gender, race, Racial Violence, Resistance

Mary told her family story to Charles Houston as part of the “Behind the Veil” oral history project undertaken by Duke University’s

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