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On America

February 19, 2020February 16, 2020 Marquis Bey #OnSuite, Black political thought, black politics, black protest, Black Queer Identity, Black Queers, Black radicalism, Gender, LGBT, race

*This post is part of contributor Marquis Bey’s On Suite series. “I love America more than any other country in this world,

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In Pursuit of Knowledge: A New Book about Black Women’s Educational Activism

February 14, 2020February 9, 2020 AAIHS Editors Activism, black intellectual history, Black women, education, Resistance

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

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The Black Avenger: ‘The Essential Trope of Atlantic Modernity’

February 6, 2020February 2, 2020 Benjamin Fagan #BlackPanther, African Diaspora, Caribbean, comic books, comics, Haiti, racism, white supremacy

In the years before and since the release and reception of the blockbuster 2018 film, Black Panther, the iconic Marvel

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Blackness, Freedom, and the Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana

February 5, 2020February 5, 2020 Karen Cook Bell citizenship, Cuba, freedom, law, Louisiana, Virginia

Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana radically reorients our perspective on Blackness and slavery

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The Black Republic: A New Book about African Americans and Haiti

January 31, 2020January 30, 2020 AAIHS Editors African Diaspora, black intellectual history, black politics, Black radicalism, Haiti, Pan-Africanism, Resistance, W.E.B. Du Bois

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

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