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The Meaning and Significance of Haiti in African American Studies

December 8, 2020January 11, 2021 Chelsea Stieber #TheBlackRepublic, African Diaspora, black intellectual history, Caribbean, Haiti, white supremacy

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Brandon R. Byrd’s The Black Republic. Of the “idea of Haiti,” historian

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Lunchtime Book Talk with Author Brandon R. Byrd

December 7, 2020December 6, 2020 AAIHS Editors #TheBlackRepublic

Friday, December 11, 2020 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), invites readers to attend a lunchtime

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Online Roundtable: Brandon R. Byrd’s ‘The Black Republic’

November 30, 2020November 29, 2020 AAIHS Editors #TheBlackRepublic

December 7-11, 2020 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting a week-long online roundtable on

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The Visual Documentation of Racist Violence in America

November 4, 2020October 31, 2020 Mary Niall Mitchell Civil War, photography, race, racism, slavery

Speaking to a Washington Post reporter recently, attorney Ben Crump (who represents the families of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Sean

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Mapping a Plan for Reparations in the Twenty-First Century

October 8, 2020October 13, 2020 Ashley Dennis capitalism, Politics, reparations

As the U.S. reckons with systemic racism in the wake of global protests over the murder of George Floyd, Breonna

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