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Malcolm X in Brooklyn

February 20, 2017February 23, 2017 Zaheer Ali #RememberingMalcolm, black intellectual history, black nationalism, Malcolm X, Pan-Africanism

This post is part of our online forum,” Remembering Malcolm,” edited by Garrett Felber. In his eloquent and moving eulogy for Malcolm X,

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Trumpism and the Magnitude of Mass Incarceration

February 16, 2017February 18, 2017 David Stein carceral state, Donald Trump, mass incarceration, police violence

On Thursday, February 9, President Trump instituted new executive actions, which affirmed his campaign vows to emphasize “law and order.”

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Cosmological Queerness Across the Yoruba Diaspora

February 5, 2017April 2, 2018 James Padilioni Jr Afro-Brazilians, Black Queers, Brazil, religion, slave trade, slavery

The constellating topics of homosexuality and masculinity are perennial to Black American discourses. In contemporary debates, the chorus shouting loudest

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Afro-Brazilian Feminists and the Fight for Racial and Gender Inclusion

February 2, 2017March 10, 2017 Jaimee A. Swift Afro-Brazilians, Black women, Brazil, Gender, Latin America

In 1979, Afro-Brazilian feminist Leila Gonzalez wrote a critique of the National Encounter of Women that drew much-needed attention to

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Race, History, and the #ScienceMarch

January 30, 2017March 13, 2017 Christopher F. Petrella black politics, Donald Trump, Politics, Trumpism

Donald Trump is an anti-science president. In fact, his entire raison d’être—perhaps unsurprisingly—stands at cross-purposes with the scientific method, systematic

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