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Capitalism and Slavery: Reflections on the Williams Thesis

November 21, 2015November 22, 2015 Guy Emerson Mount

                The thing we call slavery and the thing we call capitalism both continue to provoke scholars with their

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Awards

Pauli Murray Book Prize Named after lawyer, author, and women’s rights activist-intellectual Pauli Murray, the prize will recognize the best

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When Cops Kill the Terrorists Win

October 28, 2015October 28, 2015 Guy Emerson Mount #BlackLivesMatter, Activism, black internationalism, Black Panthers, black politics, black protest, capitalism, Chicago, Ferguson, imperialism, W.E.B. Du Bois

  On June 15, 1969 the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, J. Edgar Hoover, famously declared that the

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State of the Field Roundtable at #ASALH100

October 6, 2015October 6, 2015 Chris Cameron

At the recent meeting of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, I had the pleasure

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The ‘Dixie Narrative’ and the Meaning of Slavery

September 16, 2015March 26, 2017 Guest Poster slavery

*This is a guest post from Ibrahim Sundiata, emeritus professor of African/Afro-American Studies and History at Brandeis University. Sundiata is

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