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Freedom Without Citizenship, Reconciliation without Reparations

September 3, 2019August 30, 2019 Westenley Alcenat black politics, capitalism, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, economic justice, Jim Crow, race, Race and Economic History, racism, slavery, white supremacy

This post is part two of a two-part commentary/analysis on Black citizenship after Reconstruction. Read part one here: “Deferred Freedom

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Introducing New Writers and Editors for ‘Black Perspectives’

September 2, 2019September 1, 2019 AAIHS Editors

Black Perspectives is excited to announce our return from our annual summer break. We have excellent essays, interviews, roundtables, and

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Jazz and Justice: A New Book on Racism and the Political Economy of the Music

July 22, 2019July 17, 2019 Ajamu Amiri Dillahunt art, black politics, culture, jazz, Jim Crow, music, St. Louis

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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Mapping Blackness in Yugoslavia and Post-Yugoslav Space

July 17, 2019September 16, 2019 Sunnie Rucker-Chang African Diaspora, Black Europe, capitalism, Communism, Pan-Africanism, race, Soviet Union

96-year-old Fatmire is one of the few remaining members of a small and relatively unknown Afro-Albanian “Black” community in Montenegro, a

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Before the Central Park Five, There Was the Trenton Six

July 3, 2019June 21, 2019 Denise Lynn civil rights, Communism, Communist Party, Jim Crow, NAACP, police brutality, police violence, prisons, race, racism

The four-part docuseries When They See Us, directed by Ava DuVernay, has brought attention to the notorious case of the Central

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