Search Results for: slavery

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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Contesting State Violence in and Beyond the Archive

January 23, 2017February 18, 2017 Dan Berger #BloodintheWater, archives, carceral state, mass incarceration

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

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The 1967 MLK and the Politics of Transcendence

January 21, 2017January 10, 2018 Ibram X. Kendi black politics, Martin Luther King Jr.

I am not thinking about Donald Trump today. I am still hungover from MLK Day. I am still celebrating the

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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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