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On the Limits of Boycotts as a Political Tool

March 14, 2018March 19, 2018 Jessica Ann Levy civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, South Africa

Corporate boycotts made headlines for the second time since October in the wake of the recent high school shooting in Parkland, Florida.

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Finalists for the Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History

March 4, 2018March 6, 2018 AAIHS Editors black intellectual history

The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) is pleased to announce the finalists for the first annual Pauli Murray Book

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Why White Southern Conservatives Need to Defend Confederate Monuments

March 3, 2018March 5, 2018 William Sturkey civil rights, South, white supremacy

Modern debates over Confederate monuments are not merely concerned with culture, historical memory, or racism. For many monument defenders, there

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Benedita da Silva, Brazil’s First Black Woman Senator and Governor

March 1, 2018March 3, 2018 Jaimee A. Swift Afro-Brazilians, black politics, Black women, Brazil, intersectionality

Female politicians are underrepresented in their leadership and their participation, and their contributions and successes in national, local, and civil

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Can Superheroes Be Woke?: Black Liberation and the Black Panther

February 24, 2018March 7, 2018 Vincent Haddad #BlackPanther, #comicsandrace, comics, race

*This post is part of our new blog series on The World of the Black Panther. This series, edited by

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