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Is Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome Stamped from the Beginning?

June 28, 2016June 27, 2016 Guy Emerson Mount trauma

This post was inspired by Professor Ibram X. Kendi’s insightful AAIHS critique of Professor Joy DeGruy’s equally insightful book Post

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Black History in the Comics

June 27, 2016June 27, 2016 Paul Hébert Ta-Nehisi Coates

I have been reading comics my whole life, but it was only recently that I attended my first comics gathering,

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The Taming of Muhammad Ali

June 22, 2016June 21, 2016 Russell Rickford black nationalism, Muhammad Ali

“The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.”- Steven Biko Muhammad Ali

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Orlando and the American Pathologies of Masculinity and Militarism

June 20, 2016June 15, 2016 Russell Rickford masculinity, violence

It is virtually forbidden–as an unpatriotic act–that the American boy evolve into the complexity of manhood. –James Baldwin The dominant

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A Mountainous Freedom

June 17, 2016December 30, 2016 Guest Poster #FreedomAAIHS, C.L.R. James, Haitian Revolution, marronage

Today, we continue our roundtable on Neil Roberts‘s Freedom as Marronage with a contribution from Minkah Makalani, associate professor in

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