Search Results for: Black Radical Tradition

A Brief History of the “Black Friend”

July 30, 2018August 8, 2018 Tyler Parry Jim Crow, slavery, South

In June 2018, two news reports encapsulated a problem in American race relations: a white person says something racist, apologizes

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Black Art and Social Justice: An Interview with Elizabeth Burden

June 14, 2018June 18, 2018 Charisse Burden-Stelly art, blackness, race, Resistance, social justice, Visual Culture

In May 1967, Black Panther newspaper began incorporating “revolutionary art,” including drawings, political cartoons, and mixed-media images to “enlighten” and “educate”

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#SummerReading: Recommended New Books on the Black Experience

June 11, 2018June 16, 2018 Ibram X. Kendi black intellectual history

With summer quickly approaching, I have compiled a list of recommended new non-fiction books. All of these books, which were

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Haitian Writer Baron de Vastey and Black Atlantic Humanism: An Interview with Marlene L. Daut

June 4, 2018June 16, 2018 Julia Gaffield black intellectual history, blackness, freedom, Haiti, Haitian Revolution, slavery

In today’s post, Julia Gaffield, Assistant Professor of History at Georgia State University, interviews Marlene L. Daut on her new book Baron

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Black on Both Sides: A New Book on the Racial History of Trans Identity

May 14, 2018May 15, 2018 Dan Berger black feminism, Gender, sexuality

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

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