Historical Amnesia and the Burden of the Euro-American Past in the Age of Trump
In the last 100 days since he began his presidency, President Trump’s administration has unleashed a powerful nativist movement anchored
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A Dual Emancipation: How Black Freedom Benefited Poor Whites
Recently scholars have come to question “emancipation” as the proper terminology for describing the end of American slavery, preferring instead
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Black Feminist Futures: A Reading List
In 1994, Ann duCille proclaimed that black feminism occupies a precarious status within the academy, due, in part, to its
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On Barbados, the First Black Slave Society
Barbados was the birthplace of British slave society and the most ruthlessly colonized by Britain’s ruling elites. They made their
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The Missing Link: Conservative Abolitionists, Slavery, and Yale
We’re living in one of those moments that doesn’t happen often: elite universities are suddenly interested in their slave-related pasts.
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