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“Rikers: An American Jail”: A New Film on Mass Incarceration

October 21, 2017October 24, 2017 Michael T. Barry Jr. #FilmFeatures, mass incarceration, New York, prisons

This post is part of my blog series that announces the release of new films in African American History and African Diaspora Studies.

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Not a Classic: The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual

October 18, 2017October 21, 2017 Daniel Geary black intellectual history, Harold Cruse

*This post is part of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History’s recent roundtable on Harold Cruse’s The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual (1967).

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The Black Press and the Ku Klux Klan

October 18, 2017October 21, 2017 Felix Harcourt black intellectual history, Racial Violence

“Crouching, cringing, shrinking from both physical and intellectual light,” Chandler Owen wrote, “the Klan is a true anthropoid germ which

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The Activist Work of K-12 Educators: Then and Now

October 7, 2017October 10, 2017 Andrene Castro Activism, black intellectual history, teaching

Black students’ educational needs are central to Black political and social activism. It is no secret that Black activism in

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Invisible No More: A New Book on Police Violence Against Women of Color

October 7, 2017October 9, 2017 Julie Hawks Immigration, police brutality, police violence, racist ideas

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

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