Search Results for: Civil War

In the Heat of the Summer: A New Book on the 1964 New York Rebellions

November 25, 2016November 25, 2016 Ibram X. Kendi criminal justice system, New York

This post is part of a blog series I am editing, which announces the release of selected new works in African

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Centering New Negro Politics in the Jim Crow South

November 22, 2016November 20, 2016 J. T. Roane Garveyism, South, Virginia

Far too often, the South, and especially the Black South connote backwardness in the imaginations of scholars and activists alike.

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Announcement: AAIHS/JCHR Roundtable on Heather Ann Thompson’s Blood in the Water

November 20, 2016January 17, 2017 AAIHS Editors carceral state, mass incarceration, New York

January 22-27, 2017 The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS)’s blog–Black Perspectives—is collaborating with the Journal of Civil and Human

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Graphic Voodoo: Africana Religion in Comics

November 17, 2016November 25, 2016 Yvonne Chireau #comicsandrace

This guest post is part of our new blog series on Comics, Race, and Society, edited by Julian Chambliss and

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Sitting Shiva: Mourning and Anger in Trump’s America

November 15, 2016November 14, 2016 Patrick Rael freedom

I’ve spent most of my life now studying my country’s history, and in particular the ways it has so consistently,

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