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Fugitive Science: A New Book on Scientific Racism in America

May 6, 2017May 9, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi black intellectual history, Frederick Douglass, racism, racist ideas

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

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Black Rage at the Organization of American Historians

May 6, 2017May 10, 2017 Guy Emerson Mount black intellectual history, police violence, Racial Violence, violence

The theme of this year’s Organization of American Historians conference in New Orleans was circulation. For black communities beyond academia,

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Historical Amnesia and the Burden of the Euro-American Past in the Age of Trump

April 29, 2017May 2, 2017 Westenley Alcenat Donald Trump, racism, racist ideas, Trumpism

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

April 15, 2017April 18, 2017 Keri Leigh Merritt freedom, reconstruction, violence

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

April 14, 2017April 17, 2017 Kathleen E. Bethel black feminism, black politics, Black women

In 1994, Ann duCille proclaimed that black feminism occupies a precarious status within the academy, due, in part, to its

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