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Revolution and Repression: A Framework for African American History

June 6, 2017June 10, 2017 Brandon Byrd #Horne, Haiti

This post is part of our online roundtable on Gerald Horne’s Black Radical History What are the defining themes of

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Bound in Wedlock: A New Book on Slave and Free Marriage in the 19th Century

June 3, 2017June 7, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi 19th Century, Marriage

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

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Interrogating the Master Narrative of “My Family’s Slave”

June 2, 2017June 6, 2017 Premilla Nadasen Activism, racism, Resistance, slavery

Alex Tizon’s widely acclaimed article in The Atlantic about his family’s horrific abuse and exploitation of a domestic worker has

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Measuring Racial Progress, Past and Present

June 1, 2017June 3, 2017 Greg Laski democracy, W.E.B. Du Bois

If the November 2008 election of Barack Obama to the presidency provided an occasion to measure the distance the United

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Beyond Respectability: A New Book on Black Female Public Intellectuals

May 30, 2017June 2, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi black intellectual history, Black women, Gender, review of black women's intellectual history

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

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