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More Than Just Words: Taking Antiracism Seriously

December 10, 2018December 24, 2018 Sasha Turner black intellectual history, race, racism, teaching

From bumper stickers and social media hashtags and memes, to think tanks and think pieces, the concept ‘antiracist’ has saturated

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On the Life of Black Abolitionist Anna Murray Douglass

November 29, 2018December 7, 2018 Leigh Fought Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass Forum

*This post is part of our online forum on the life of Frederick Douglass. “She drew around herself a certain reserve,” Rosetta

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‘New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition’: A New Book on Black Thinkers in the US and Abroad

November 15, 2018November 19, 2018 Melissa N. Shaw black intellectual history

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

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The Contours of Black Intellectual History

November 15, 2018November 19, 2018 AAIHS Editors black intellectual history

This is an excerpt of the introduction to New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition (Northwestern University Press, 2018) edited by Keisha N.

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Martin Luther King Jr.’s Vision of American Democracy

November 14, 2018November 19, 2018 Karen Cook Bell Civil Rights Movement, Jim Crow, race

Martin Luther King Jr. approached history with a reverent understanding of the complex relationship between the secular and the sacred.

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