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‘Force and Freedom’: A New Book About Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence

February 1, 2019March 31, 2019 J. T. Roane abolitionism

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

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Black Design in Chicago: An Exhibit and Symposium

January 25, 2019January 29, 2019 Joshua Clark Davis art, Chicago, design, Public History

If Harlem was the capital of Black fine arts in the United States in the twentieth century, Chicago was the

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The Best Black History Books of 2018

December 14, 2018December 24, 2018 AAIHS Editors

We asked editors and bloggers of Black Perspectives to select the best books published in 2018 on Black History, and

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‘New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition’: A New Book on Black Thinkers in the US and Abroad

November 15, 2018November 19, 2018 Melissa N. Shaw black intellectual history

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

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Documenting Racial Violence Through Photography

November 13, 2018December 10, 2018 Matthew Teutsch Activism, photography, Racial Violence

Earlier this year, John Ira Jennings and Damian Duffy’s graphic novel adaptation of Octavia Butler’s Kindred (1979) won the 2018

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