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Literacy, History, and African American Spirituals

December 13, 2018December 24, 2018 Karen Cook Bell #BlackLivesMatter, race, religion, Resistance, slavery

In his 1935 interview with Alan Lomax and Zora Neale Hurston, Wallace Quarterman, a ninety-one-year-old formerly enslaved man, shared a

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Vexy Thing: A New Book on Gender and Liberation

December 13, 2018December 24, 2018 J. T. Roane black feminism, Gender

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

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Reclaiming the Black Past: A New Book on the Use and Misuse of African American History

December 12, 2018December 24, 2018 Keisha N. Blain black intellectual history, Historical Memory

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

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Black Creativity and Imagination at the End of the World

December 11, 2018December 24, 2018 J. T. Roane literature, poetry

Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower and Edwidge Danticat’s The Farming of Bones are set in starkly different times and

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W. E. B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits: A New Book on Visualizing Black America

December 10, 2018December 24, 2018 Phillip Luke Sinitiere archives, black intellectual history, civil rights, W.E.B. Du Bois

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

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