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Theorizing Race in the Americas: An Interview with Juliet Hooker

May 5, 2017May 8, 2017 Francisco Herrera Frederick Douglass, Latin America, racism, W.E.B. Du Bois

In today’s post, Francisco Herrera, an MA student in Latin American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, interviews

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Race, Media, and Black Womanhood in the Early Twentieth Century

April 24, 2017April 28, 2017 Jane Rhodes #AAIHSRoundtable, #politicsofrespectability, Black women, Gender, racism

This post is part of our online roundtable on Black Women and the Politics of Respectability. The politics of respectability

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A Conference Goes Onward and Upward: Reflections on #AAIHS2017

April 6, 2017April 8, 2017 Robert Greene II #AAIHS2017, black intellectual history, conference

I consider myself fortunate to have attended the first two conferences held by the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS).

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The Critique of Racial Liberalism: An Interview with Charles W. Mills

April 3, 2017December 30, 2017 Neil Roberts #raceandphilosophy, Philosophy, Racial Capitalism, Trumpism

This month I interviewed Charles W. Mills about his new book, Black Rights/White Wrongs: The Critique of Racial Liberalism. Mills is

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Slavery, New Orleans, and the Counting Blues

March 28, 2017March 31, 2017 Rashauna Johnson New Orleans, slave trade, slavery

In “Countin’ the Blues,” Gertrude “Ma” Rainey sings, “Layin’ in my bed with my face turned to the wall…Tryin’ to

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