An Internationalist Vision of Black History Month
Black History Month has always had an international outlook. From its origins as Negro History Week, started in 1926 by
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James Baldwin and The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual
*This post is part of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History’s recent roundtable on Harold Cruse’s The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual (1967). Click here to
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Revolution and Repression: A Framework for African American History
This post is part of our online roundtable on Gerald Horne’s Black Radical History What are the defining themes of
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Theorizing Race in the Americas: An Interview with Juliet Hooker
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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“Haiti for the Haitians”: A Genealogy
Recently, I have begun to construct a genealogy of an important–albeit overlooked–phrase, “Haiti for the Haitians.” Last month, I had
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