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CFP: Black Intellectuals and the Crisis of Democracy

September 23, 2022September 18, 2022 AAIHS Editors black intellectuals, CFP, democracy, Intellectual History, intellectuals, Protest, race

Since the founding of the United States, Black intellectuals have questioned the limits of American democracy. While in the past

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Lorraine Hansberry and the Black Radical Tradition

September 6, 2022August 31, 2022 Shane Vogel #AAIHSRoundtable, #RadicalVision, black intellectual history, Black women

This post is part of our online roundtable on Soyica Diggs Colbert’s Radical Vision Soyica Diggs Colbert’s Radical Vision: A Biography

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The Supreme Court and Racial Inequality

August 25, 2022August 17, 2022 Alani Golanski 13th Amendment, 14th Amendment, law, Supreme Court, Voting Rights

  The Supreme Court’s infamous 1896 ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson – issued several decades after white actor Thomas Dartmouth

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Black Historians, Race, and the Historical Profession

August 23, 2022August 21, 2022 Hettie Williams black intellectual history, education, teaching, W.E.B. Du Bois

“History must restore what slavery took away, for it is the social damage of slavery that the present generations must

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Tricksters, Biographies, and Two-Faced Archives

June 2, 2022June 1, 2022 K. T. Ewing Alberta Hunter, biography, Blues, Chicago, Memphis, Methodology

In 2015, precisely 31 years to the day of her death, blues and cabaret singer Alberta Hunter was inducted into

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