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Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome is a Racist Idea

June 21, 2016June 21, 2016 Ibram X. Kendi trauma

For a generation of open-minded Americans, the original Roots miniseries in 1977 uprooted fields of racist ideas of backward Africa,

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On Freedom and Radicalizing the Black Radical Tradition

June 18, 2016December 30, 2016 Guest Poster #FreedomAAIHS, marronage

Today, Neil Roberts concludes the roundtable on his book Freedom as Marronage. We began with an introduction by Jared Hardesty

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A Mountainous Freedom

June 17, 2016December 30, 2016 Guest Poster #FreedomAAIHS, C.L.R. James, Haitian Revolution, marronage

Today, we continue our roundtable on Neil Roberts‘s Freedom as Marronage with a contribution from Minkah Makalani, associate professor in

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Why We Must Remember: Reflecting on the Charleston Massacre One Year Later

June 17, 2016June 16, 2016 Keisha N. Blain Charleston, Racial Violence, South Carolina, violence

On June 17, 2015, a white supremacist walked into the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in Charleston, South Carolina,

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Marronage and Normativity

June 16, 2016June 10, 2016 Greg Childs #FreedomAAIHS, marronage

This is the fourth day of our roundtable on Neil Roberts’s Freedom as Marronage. We began with an introduction by

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