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Race and Racism at Canadian Universities

April 30, 2018May 5, 2018 Deirdre Mccorkindale academia, Canada, race

Since the 1970s, the national identity of Canada has been firmly associated with the concept of multiculturalism. Promoting national culture

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W. E. B. Du Bois, Higher Education, and the Black Intellectual

April 21, 2018April 24, 2018 Lavelle Porter education, literature, W.E.B. Du Bois

The Quest of the Silver Fleece, published in 1911, is the first of five novels that W. E. B. Du

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Abolitionism and Slave Resistance: An Interview with Manisha Sinha and Sasha Turner

April 20, 2018April 24, 2018 AAIHS Editors Black women, Caribbean, Gender, race, slavery

Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black

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Afro-Brazilians and Contemporary Lynchings in Brazil

April 19, 2018April 24, 2018 Jaimee A. Swift African Diaspora, Afro-Brazilians, Brazil, lynching, Racial Violence, violence, white supremacy

In historical understandings of racial violence against African Americans in the United States, lynching typically summons imagery of white crime

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“Middle Class” is a White Racial Construct

April 16, 2018April 21, 2018 Christopher Petrella and Ameer Hasan Loggins imperialism, racism, white supremacy

Over the past year a flurry of studies and op-eds highlighting diminished opportunities for economic advancement among people of color

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