Search Results for: Black Radical Tradition

Brazilian Politics and the Rise of the Far-Right

January 7, 2019January 29, 2019 Daniela Gomes Afro-Brazilians, Brazil, repression, Resistance

On October 28, Brazil elected its 38th President, Jair Bolsonaro, making a core of his 57 million supporters extremely happy

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Top 10 of 2018 – #4 – The Historical Roots of Blues Music

December 25, 2018January 29, 2019 Lamont Pearley Sr. #TopTen

*Editor’s Note: As the year comes to a close, we’re featuring the ten most popular pieces we published on Black Perspectives. This essay–ranked number

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Literacy, History, and African American Spirituals

December 13, 2018December 24, 2018 Karen Cook Bell #BlackLivesMatter, race, religion, Resistance, slavery

In his 1935 interview with Alan Lomax and Zora Neale Hurston, Wallace Quarterman, a ninety-one-year-old formerly enslaved man, shared a

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Vexy Thing: A New Book on Gender and Liberation

December 13, 2018December 24, 2018 J. T. Roane black feminism, Gender

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

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Frederick Douglass and Fugitivity

November 26, 2018December 3, 2018 Manisha Sinha Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass Forum, fugitivity, Resistance, slavery

*This post is part of our online forum on the life of Frederick Douglass. If I had to choose a single

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