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A Review of Black Perspectives Roundtables and CFPs in 2021

January 25, 2022January 24, 2022 Robert Greene II #AAIHSRoundtable, archives, black intellectual history, black lives matter, race

In 2021, Black Perspectives commissioned several roundtables and calls for papers. All of them either marked the occasion of an

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The Black Radical Tradition in *The Dawn of Everything*

January 21, 2022January 20, 2022 Kevin Suemnicht black intellectual history, black lives matter, slavery

Amidst ongoing racial injustice, the threat of global climate change, and the disappointing aftermath of the George Floyd Rebellion, is

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From Dessalines to Garvey: the Battles of Psychological Liberation

January 11, 2022January 10, 2022 Kersuze Simeon-Jones African Diaspora, black intellectual history, Haiti

Over two centuries apart, Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Marcus Mosiah Garvey espoused ideas and expounded principles of liberation that descendants of

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Black Remembrance and Racial Violence in New Orleans

December 21, 2021December 20, 2021 Sowande’ M. Mustakeem Jim Crow, Racial Violence

In 1831, Nat Turner—who led a band of bondpeople into insurrection in Southampton, Virginia –was executed, quelling what a great

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Flyboy Meets Guerrilla Scholar

December 16, 2021December 15, 2021 Herb Boyd africa, Greg Tate, music, Robert Farris Thompson, Scholar

Mulling over how to deal with the passing of Robert Farris Thompson, the famed “guerilla scholar,” as he termed himself—he

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