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Silencing Black Radicalism Since the Cold War

December 3, 2020December 3, 2020 Denise Lynn Activism, black internationalism, Black radicalism, civil rights, Resistance, W.E.B. Du Bois

As the recent election has shown, anti-communism is alive and well in the United States. Donald Trump and other conservatives

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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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How Immigrants Became Scapegoats in the United Kingdom

November 13, 2020November 9, 2020 Gabrielle Mauriello African Diaspora, Blacks in Britain, book review, immigrant, Immigration, race, racism

In Hostile Environment: How Immigrants Became Scapegoats, Maya Goodfellow sets out to explain how decades of restrictive British policies and

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Race and the Remaking of Trans History: An Author’s Response

October 30, 2020November 9, 2020 C. Riley Snorton LGBT

Editor’s note: In honor of LGBTQ History Month, this week we’re revisiting pieces published on Black queer history, thought, and/or

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Centering the History of Black Women in the French Empire

September 15, 2020September 15, 2020 Kate Dossett France

Annette Joseph-Gabriel’s Reimagining Liberation: How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire offers a bold new path for reimagining

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