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Slavery and Violence in the Old South: An Interview with Jeff Forret

October 6, 2016August 15, 2017 Keri Leigh Merritt archives, Gender

This month I interviewed Dr. Jeff Forret, Professor and Distinguished Faculty Research Fellow at Lamar University. He is the author

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Black Protest, White Backlash, and the History of Scientific Racism

October 5, 2016October 4, 2016 Guest Poster 2016 Presidential Election, Colin Kaepernick

Co-Authored by Christopher Petrella and Justin Gomer “Mainstream culture…defines threats to racial order as a form of madness that is,

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Why We Need the #CharlestonSyllabus Now

October 4, 2016March 26, 2017 Keisha N. Blain #CharlestonSyllabus, Charleston, police brutality, police violence, South Carolina

On Friday, Sept. 23rd, the University of Georgia Press hosted the Charleston Syllabus Symposium at the University of Georgia. The

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Is the Myth of Racial Harmony Killing Our Country?

October 3, 2016October 4, 2016 Devyn Spence Benson black internationalism, black protest, police brutality

My eyes draw open, fixing on the silhouette of the spinning blades of the ceiling fan above my bed. After

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Beyond Négritude: Francophone African Women’s Pan-Africanism

October 1, 2016March 13, 2017 Annette Joseph-Gabriel #WomenandPanAfricanismSeries, Black women, Pan-Africanism

*This is the fourth post in a new blog series on Women, Gender and Pan-Africanism edited by Keisha N. Blain.

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