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Framing a Transformative Vision for Black Lives

September 14, 2016September 13, 2016 Clarence Lang #BlackLivesMatter, #ScholarsRespond, Black Lives Matter Forum, M4BL, Policy Demands

“It has been precisely the audacity of this movement framing, and the resilience of the black radical imaginary, that has

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Black Love Post-Death, Part II

September 12, 2016September 11, 2016 Jessica Marie Johnson black lives matter, Black Studies

Last year, right around this time, I wrote this for Focus: The Princeton Department of African and African American Studies Medium

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This Vast Southern Empire: A New Book on Slaveholders and U.S. Foreign Policy

September 12, 2016January 1, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi Deep South, empire, slavery

This post is part of a new and recurring blog series I am editing, which announces the release of selected new

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Men without Pants: Masculinity and the Enslaved

September 11, 2016September 11, 2016 Keri Leigh Merritt Deep South, masculinity

Although nearly fifty-seven years have passed since Stanley Elkins’ provocative thesis on the effects of slavery rocked the historical community,

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Beyond Today’s Vote: Constructions of Black Identity Then and Now

September 9, 2016September 8, 2016 Chernoh Sesay Jr. Phillis Wheatley

“The political and cultural identities of black people have never been reducible to a discrete and unified list of interests

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