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Portraits of Black Womanhood

December 14, 2017December 18, 2017 Janell Hobson black feminism, Black women, Gender

When I first encountered Marie-Guillemine Benoist’s Portrait d’une Negresse at the Louvre, I had just researched and encountered the remains of

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Centrist Liberalism and the Myths of the American Past

December 13, 2017December 18, 2017 Westenley Alcenat Donald Trump, Immigration, Racial Capitalism, reconstruction, Trumpism, W.E.B. Du Bois, white supremacy

We are now a full year into the Trump Administration, and a serious ideological challenge has yet to be leveled

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Dismantling Whiteness as the Beauty Standard

December 9, 2017December 14, 2017 Sasha Turner African Diaspora, Black women, blackness, Colorism, Resistance, slavery, white supremacy

Miss Jamaica Davina Bennett rejected Eurocentric beauty ideals when she sported her afro at this year’s Miss Universe Pageant. Bennett had

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Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap

December 5, 2017December 21, 2017 Guy Emerson Mount capitalism, economic justice

When I first heard about the “#BankBlack movement” I knew I smelled a rat. So I wrote about it. After reading Mehrsa

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Black Women and Economic Justice in St. Louis: An Interview with Keona Ervin

December 2, 2017December 6, 2017 Candace Borders Black women, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, economic justice, Jim Crow, Resistance

In today’s post, Candace Borders, a recent graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, interviews Keona K. Ervin on her

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