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Eloise Moore, Queen Mother Moore, and Grassroots Black Nationalism

February 26, 2019August 12, 2022 Erik S. McDuffie #QueenMotherMoore, black feminism, black nationalism, black politics, Black radicalism, Black women, Communism, Communist Party, Garveyism, Gender, Marcus Garvey, Pan-Africanism

Today’s post is part of a week-long series featuring excerpts from a special issue on activist Queen Mother Audley Moore.

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Black Women’s Anti-Colonizationist Political Thought

February 22, 2019August 12, 2022 Adam McNeil abolitionism, Black political thought, Black women, slavery

Black women have always been at the forefront of Black political movements. From Maria Stewart and Ida B. Wells-Barnett in

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Paul Laurence Dunbar, Racial Uplift, and Collective Identity

February 19, 2019March 31, 2019 Matthew Teutsch black intellectual history, race

On December 8, 1896, Paul Laurence Dunbar met with John Wesley Cromwell, Alexander Crummell, Walter B. Hayson, and Kelly Miller

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Working-Class Politics and the Carceral State

February 6, 2019March 31, 2019 Keelyn Bradley capitalism, Racial Violence, racism, white supremacy

In the United States, whiteness as metaphysical absence is a prerequisite for economic class neutralization, allowing the aesthetic malleability and

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Attack Dogs and the History of Racial Violence

February 5, 2019March 31, 2019 Tyler Parry police brutality, police violence, Racial Violence

In 1970 French author Romain Gary published his novel White Dog, a semi-biographical work that imaginatively recreated the author’s experiences

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