Search Results for: Black Lives Matter

The Radical Democracy of the Movement for Black Lives

June 9, 2020June 9, 2020 Peniel Joseph

This week we’re revisiting selections from our 2016 series ‘With Love and Respect: #ScholarsRespond to A Vision for Black Lives,’

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Becoming Human: A New Book on Blackness and Animality

May 8, 2020May 7, 2020 AAIHS Editors Black Studies, literature

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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Disability: What Have Black People Got to Do with It?

April 22, 2020May 16, 2020 Angel Love Miles #Blackness&Disability, Black women, blackness, disability, Disability Studies, intersectionality, race

*This piece is part of the Blackness, Disability, & Gender Identity Series organized by Vilissa Thompson. “What comes first for

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Black Deaths and Black Mourning in the Time of Coronavirus

April 20, 2020April 19, 2020 Joan Flores-Villalobos Afro-Latin, Afro-Latinx, Caribbean, Latin America, mourning, Panama

That coronavirus (COVID-19) is “the great equalizer” has quickly become an old and tired adage, rightly critiqued by scholars and

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Black Bourgeois: A New Book about the Dilemma of Black Middle-Class Embodiment in the Post-Civil Rights Era

April 3, 2020April 1, 2020 AAIHS Editors class, embodiment, literature, Performance

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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