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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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Tornado Groan: On Black (Blues) Ecologies

March 16, 2020March 16, 2020 J. T. Roane #BlackEcologies, black intellectual history, Black women, music

At noon on September 29, 1927, the clouds over St. Louis began to take on an ominous darkness. In the

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Introducing the New Black Surrealisms Series

March 2, 2020March 1, 2020 AAIHS Editors #NewBlackSurrealisms, digital media, MEDIA, race, Visual Culture

New Black Surrealisms, guest edited by Tiffany E. Barber and Jerome P. Dent, Jr., extends recent interventions in Black media

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Making Black People Powerful: An Interview with Alicia Garza

February 17, 2020February 16, 2020 Ajamu Amiri Dillahunt Activism, black lives matter, black radical tradition, Black women

This post is part of our Black Organizing Today Series. This series, edited by Ajamu Amiri Dillahunt, consists of interviews

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