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The Age of Garvey and the Reconstruction of the Global Garveyist Frontier

November 23, 2015December 30, 2016 Guest Poster #AAIHSRoundtable, #AgeofGarvey, Garveyism, Marcus Garvey

Over the next few days (November 23-30, 2015), we are hosting a roundtable on Adam Ewing’s The Age of Garvey:

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Without Exception ?

November 16, 2015 Greg Childs

In 1798, Luís Gonzaga, a free man of African descent was arrested for promoting rebellion against slavery and colonialism in

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Black-Jewish Nostalgia and Black Lives Matter

November 7, 2015 Chris Cameron

The following guest post was written by David Weinfeld. He is a sessional instructor at the Centre for the Study

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When Cops Kill the Terrorists Win

October 28, 2015October 28, 2015 Guy Emerson Mount #BlackLivesMatter, Activism, black internationalism, Black Panthers, black politics, black protest, capitalism, Chicago, Ferguson, imperialism, W.E.B. Du Bois

  On June 15, 1969 the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, J. Edgar Hoover, famously declared that the

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Visible Fugitives

October 16, 2015 Greg Childs

Often times when students hear me lecture about the famed Brazilian quilombo (runaway settlement) of Palmares, they want to know

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