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George Hackett, Baltimore’s Birthright Citizen

August 3, 2021August 3, 2021 Martha S. Jones #AAIHSRoundtable, #contestedcitizenship, black politics

*This post is part of our roundtable on “Contested Citizenship,” organized in collaboration with the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study

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Benne del Sur: Sesame and Black Agricultural History in Mexico

July 9, 2021July 7, 2021 Jayson Maurice Porter African Diaspora, race, teaching

Few objects embody and communicate histories of land and labor like food. Netflix’s High on the Hog: How African American

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Black Resistance, Historical Memory, and Monuments

July 6, 2021July 4, 2021 Adam Domby Activism, black protest

While commentators often point to 2015 (after the Mother Emmanuel shooting) or 2017 (after the Charlottesville terrorist attack) as the

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Marxism and Black Liberation: The Work of Raya Dunayevskaya

July 5, 2021July 4, 2021 Eugene Gogol black intellectual history, black radical tradition

Marxism, which played a role in Black Liberation ideas in the decades immediately after the Russian Revolution, and again during

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Juneteenth and the Broader Black Freedom Struggle

June 25, 2021June 24, 2021 Giuliana Perrone Activism, black politics, Juneteenth

For the first time, this past June 19th the United States officially observed Juneteenth, a day traditionally celebrated by Black

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