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Race, Class, and Television: A First Look at Brazil’s Dystopic Drama 3%

January 18, 2017January 20, 2017 Greg Childs Afro-Brazilians, Afrofuturism, Brazil

3% is Netflix’s latest original series ordered up from Latin America, and the first from Brazil. Set in a dystopic

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AAIHS 2017: Expanding the Boundaries of Black Intellectual History

January 15, 2017January 15, 2017 Brandon Byrd black intellectual history, conference

The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) is pleased to announce the release of the preliminary program for our second

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Private, Public, and Vigilante Violence in Slave Societies, Part 3

January 11, 2017January 15, 2017 Keri Leigh Merritt criminal justice system, South, violence

This essay is Part Three of a four part series concerning the triumvirate of violence in slave societies. The first

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Suspect Freedoms: A New Book on Afro-Cubans in New York

January 9, 2017January 11, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi Afro-Cubans, Anticolonialism, Immigration, Latin America, Latino/a

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

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Totalitarian Century: A New Book on Geopolitics in the Black Literary Imagination

January 8, 2017January 11, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi black intellectual history, black internationalism, black politics, W.E.B. Du Bois

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

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