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Eric Williams’ ‘Capitalism and Slavery’: A Blueprint for Reparations

September 22, 2020September 13, 2020 Verene A. Shepherd #CapitalismandSlavery, Anticolonialism, Caribbean, reparations

*This essay is part of our online forum on Eric Williams’ Capitalism and Slavery (1944), organized by historian Sasha Turner.

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Eric Williams’ Foundational Work on Slavery, Industry, and Wealth

September 21, 2020September 13, 2020 Katie Donington #CapitalismandSlavery, slavery, wealth

*This essay is part of our online forum on Eric Williams’ Capitalism and Slavery (1944), organized by historian Sasha Turner.

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‘On the Books’: Machine Learning Jim Crow

September 11, 2020September 17, 2020 William Sturkey digital media, Jim Crow

In 1950, the scholar-activist Pauli Murray published an important book titled States’ Laws on Race and Color. Sponsored by the Women’s

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Chadwick Boseman and the Semiotics of Liberation

September 8, 2020September 17, 2020 Walter Greason MEDIA, social justice

The actor’s gift is to see themselves through the eyes of their audience, while maintaining an internal sense of sincerity

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W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life in American History

September 3, 2020August 28, 2020 Edward Carson African Diaspora, black radical tradition, Black radicalism

In 2018, scholars celebrated the 150th anniversary of the birth of W.E.B. Du Bois via published essays, symposiums, and commemorative

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