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The Black Intellectual Tradition and Hip Hop

September 20, 2017September 22, 2017 Matthew Teutsch black intellectual history, music, slavery

Pictured in profile on the cover The Narrative (2016), hip hop artist Sho Baraka calls upon listeners to draw connections between

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Margaret Garner and the Complexities of Slavery and Gender

September 19, 2017September 23, 2017 Jessica Parr Ohio, slavery

“Why?” So begins Nikki Taylor’s smart and probing microhistory of enslaved woman Margaret Garner’s murder of her child. But Taylor’s

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African Americans and the Classics: An Introduction

September 7, 2017September 11, 2017 David Withun academia, black intellectual history, classics, race, racism

The history of African American engagement with Classical history, literature, and philosophy has been fraught with controversy and complexity. Much

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Online Roundtable: Judith Weisenfeld’s New World A-Coming

September 3, 2017September 25, 2017 AAIHS Editors #NewWorld

September 25-30, 2017 Black Perspectives, the blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is collaborating with the Journal of Africana Religions* to

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Police Dogs and Anti-Black Violence

July 31, 2017August 2, 2017 Tyler Parry police violence, policing, slavery

On July 11, 2017, a video circulated throughout social media depicting the San Diego police deploying a canine against an

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