Search Results for: Black Lives Matter

Black Identity and the Power of Self-Naming

September 10, 2021September 8, 2021 M. Keith Claybrook, Jr. black lives matter, education, Resistance

Black identity is the most political social identity used to identify people of African descent in the United States. The

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Black Women and Civil War Pensions

September 1, 2021August 28, 2021 Holly A. Pinheiro, Jr. Black women, Gender, Resistance

By the late-nineteenth-century, Civil War pensions not only comprised a quarter of the federal budget, but they also provided a

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Unmarked and Unburied: the Unsettling of Black Death

August 10, 2021August 12, 2021 Crystal Webster #AAIHSRoundtable, #contestedcitizenship, race, Racial Violence

The contemporary “discovery” of unmarked graves and unburied bodies of African Americans remains a disturbing reality of the Black experience.

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Bob Moses and the Fighting Spirit of Black Intellectual History

July 28, 2021July 27, 2021 Robert Greene II black intellectual history, Civil Rights Movement

The recent passing of Bob Moses offers a quiet moment to consider the varied lessons intellectual historians—and others—should take from

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Blackness, Norwegian Identity, and Nationality

July 23, 2021July 22, 2021 Matthew Teutsch black internationalism, black lives matter, music

  Speaking about his research, 2019 Holberg Laureate Paul Gilroy told the committee, “I am particularly engaged by the fate of people

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