Search Results for: Black Radical Tradition

Anti-racism in Early Soviet Visual Culture

October 31, 2017November 3, 2017 Christina Kiaer Black October, film, Russian Revolution

This post is part of our online forum, “Black October,” on the Russian Revolution and the African Diaspora Soviet Russia was once

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Like Praying: Puerto Rico on a Map

October 28, 2017October 31, 2017 Jessica Marie Johnson Caribbean, Donald Trump

“Although the plantation tradition has been relegated to the dustbin of history by some social theorists, it continues to survive

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Jah Kingdom: A New Book on the Rastafarian Movement in Tanzania

October 26, 2017October 30, 2017 Julie Hawks decolonization, Jamaica, Pan-Africanism, Rastafarianism, repatriation, Tanzania

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

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Harold Cruse’s Ruthless Criticism

October 20, 2017October 21, 2017 Andrew Hartman black intellectual history, black nationalism, Black radicalism, Harold Cruse

*This post is part of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History’s recent roundtable on Harold Cruse’s The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual (1967). Click here to

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Beyond Monuments: African Americans Contesting Civil War Memory

October 16, 2017October 21, 2017 Ashleigh Lawrence-Sanders Activism, Civil War, Historical Memory, racism, Resistance, white supremacy

As monuments to white supremacists, slavery-defenders, and Confederate leaders continue to be torn down by politicians or by the people’s

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