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Audre Lorde And I Were Once Enemies

February 16, 2021February 15, 2021 Kenyon Farrow #AudreLorde, Activism, black feminism, Gender, white supremacy

Audre Lorde and I were once mortal enemies. At least that’s the way it seemed. In late 2004, I wrote

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Online Roundtable: Robert T. Chase’s ‘We Are Not Slaves’

January 4, 2021January 10, 2021 AAIHS Editors #WeAreNotSlaves

January 11-15, 2020 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is collaborating with the Journal of Civil

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Crafting a Global Message of Anti-Racism

November 23, 2020November 21, 2020 Nicholas Grant Activism, African Diaspora, Black political thought, black politics, Blacks in Britain, Claudia Jones, colonialism, Eslanda Robeson, race, racism, Resistance, white supremacy

In late October, Kemi Badenoch took to the dispatch box in the House of Commons during a parliamentary debate about

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Autoethnographies of a Pandemic from Brooklyn’s Epicenter

October 12, 2020October 19, 2020 Jeanne Theoharis, Joseph Entin, and Dominick Braswell #AAIHSRoundtable, #Autoethnographies, class, COVID-19, ethnography, health, medical racism, New York, race, Racial Violence, racism, Resistance, student activism

Editor’s note: Today we are pleased to announce the launch of a two-week blog series, featuring eight autoethnographies from students

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Race in Contemporary America: An Interview with Historian Elwood Watson

September 29, 2020September 27, 2020 Tyler Parry Donald Trump, Election, Politics, social justice

In today’s post, senior editor Tyler D. Parry interviews Elwood Watson about his new book, Keepin’ It Real: Essays on Race in

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