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Black Queer Writers and the Transformative Possibilities of Queer Sensuality

January 17, 2017January 19, 2017 J. T. Roane black intellectual history, Black Queers, sexuality

Black Queer writers of the 1980s hoped to precipitate a seismic transformation in the political culture of the United States.

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Speech Speaks: Arrested Development’s Mastermind Thinking Aloud (Part II)

January 14, 2017June 27, 2017 Guy Emerson Mount music

This month I had the opportunity to interview Speech from the music group, Arrested Development. This is the second part of

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W.E.B. Du Bois, The Black Flame, and the Struggle Ahead

January 11, 2017January 20, 2018 Lavelle Porter #CharlestonSyllabus, 2016 Presidential Election, Charleston, W.E.B. Du Bois

Reading W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Black Flame trilogy in the months after the June 17, 2015 massacre at Emmanuel AME

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Pedagogy for the World: Black Studies in the Classroom and Beyond

January 8, 2017January 11, 2017 J. T. Roane Activism, black intellectual history, Black Studies

One of the original aims of Black Studies (and the related fields of African-American and Africana Studies) was its pedagogical

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Totalitarian Century: A New Book on Geopolitics in the Black Literary Imagination

January 8, 2017January 11, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi black intellectual history, black internationalism, black politics, W.E.B. Du Bois

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

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