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#TheHistorySoundtable III: Recent History Books by Black Women

January 31, 2017March 26, 2017 Keisha N. Blain

Here is a list of recent books written by black women scholars. This list is the second installment of #TheHistorySoundtable list

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Black Women and the Peoples Temple in Jonestown

January 31, 2017February 3, 2017 Sikivu Hutchinson religion

On November 18, 1978, over nine hundred members of the San Francisco-based Peoples Temple church (including over three hundred children)

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Power to the People: Attica and Radical Reconstruction

January 26, 2017January 28, 2017 Russell Rickford #BloodintheWater, carceral state, mass incarceration, police violence

This is the fifth day of our roundtable on Heather Ann Thompson’s book, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison

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Blood Sugar: A New Book on Food Justice in Black America

January 25, 2017January 27, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi capitalism, Caribbean, Racial Capitalism, racism

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

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The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: A New Book on the Value of the Enslaved

January 24, 2017January 26, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi Racial Capitalism, slave trade, slavery

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

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