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A Meditation on Natural Light and the Use of Fire in United States Slavery

January 13, 2020January 12, 2020 Tyler Parry black rebellion, environment, Racial Violence, Resistance, slavery, white supremacy

In her September 16, 2019 post for Black Perspectives, “Race and the Paradoxes of the Night,” cultural anthropologist Celeste Henery

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On Lived Experience

December 2, 2019November 30, 2019 Marquis Bey #OnSuite, black intellectual history, Black Queer Identity, Gender, race, trans identity

*This post is part of contributor Marquis Bey’s On Suite series. It took me the longest time to get a

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Online Roundtable—Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination

November 19, 2019November 19, 2019 AAIHS Editors #AAIHSRoundtable, #WorldmakingafterEmpire

November 25-29, 2019 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online roundtable on Adom Getachew’s Worldmaking

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Paul Boutelle’s 1968 Vice-Presidential Campaign

November 18, 2019November 16, 2019 E. James West Activism, anti-capitalism, black intellectual history, black politics, capitalism, Communism, Politics

This piece is the fourth installment of E. James West’s article series on the 1968 Presidential Campaign. Click these links

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The Power of Mapping

November 15, 2019November 11, 2019 Charles McKinney #WorkingtheBlackDiaspora, African Diaspora, Black Studies, education, pedagogy, teaching

*This post is part of our online forum organized by Drs. Charisse Burden-Stelly and Crystal Moten titled “Researching, Teaching, and Embodying

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