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Luke Cage and the Evolution of the Superhero Narrative

October 30, 2016November 25, 2016 Sam Knowles #comicsandrace, diversity, Harlem, Luke Cage

This guest post is part of our new blog series on Comics, Race, and Society, edited by Julian Chambliss and

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Reflections on Race, Diaspora, and Nation

October 29, 2016October 28, 2016 Tshombe Miles Afro-Brazilians, blackness, Brazil

“People of African descent, wherever they reside, should always be mindful that national struggles can never be disentangled from diasporic

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Braveheart for Black People: A Review of Birth of a Nation

October 25, 2016October 24, 2016 Alden Young Black film, Nate Parker, The Birth of a Nation

I was invited to see Nate Parker’s dramatic retelling of Nat Turner’s 1831 rebellion right before it opened to the

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Making the American Syllabus: Hashtag Syllabi in Historical Perspective

October 24, 2016October 22, 2016 Lisa A. Monroe #CharlestonSyllabus

Hashtag syllabi such as #FergusonSyllabus and #CharlestonSyllabus assemble critical intellectual resources and promote collective study both within and outside of

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Mass Incarceration and Its Mystification: A Review of The 13th

October 22, 2016July 12, 2017 Dan Berger carceral state

When prisoners in Alabama last spring proposed a national strike to protest “prison slavery,” they called out the infamous clause

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