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Film Blackness, Hollywood Whiteness

March 2, 2018March 3, 2018 Justin Gomer Black cinema, Black film, blackness, racism, white supremacy

“What if black film could be something other than embodied? What if black film was immaterial and bodiless? What if

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Can Superheroes Be Woke?: Black Liberation and the Black Panther

February 24, 2018March 7, 2018 Vincent Haddad #BlackPanther, #comicsandrace, comics, race

*This post is part of our new blog series on The World of the Black Panther. This series, edited by

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The Anti-Black City: A New Book on Black Urban Life in Brazil

February 12, 2018February 16, 2018 Keisha N. Blain Afro-Brazilians, Brazil, carceral state, police brutality, police violence, policing

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

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Chokwe Lumumba and Black Nationalist Convergence

February 6, 2018February 9, 2018 Dan Berger Activism, black nationalism, black politics, Black Power, black protest, black radical tradition, Black radicalism, Politics

Eight months into his tenure as mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, Chokwe Lumumba passed away on February 25, 2014. The sixty-six-year-old mayor

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Black Charleston and the Battle over Confederate Statues

January 29, 2018February 2, 2018 Ashleigh Lawrence-Sanders Charleston, racism, slavery, South Carolina, white supremacy

On January 9, 2018, the Charleston City Council deferred voting on a proposed new plaque for the John C. Calhoun

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