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Colored Travelers: A New Book on Mobility and the Fight for Citizenship

November 28, 2016November 27, 2016 Ibram X. Kendi travel

This post is part of a blog series I am editing, which announces the release of selected new works in African

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The Distinction Between Slavery and Race in U.S. History

November 27, 2016November 25, 2016 Patrick Rael Constitution, Electoral College

The history of the Electoral College is receiving a lot of attention. Pieces like this one, which explores “the electoral

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Progressive Mothers, Better Babies: A New Book on Race and Public Health in Brazil

November 16, 2016November 15, 2016 Ibram X. Kendi Afro-Brazilians, Brazil

This post is part of a blog series I am editing, which announces the release of selected new works in African

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Sitting Shiva: Mourning and Anger in Trump’s America

November 15, 2016November 14, 2016 Patrick Rael freedom

I’ve spent most of my life now studying my country’s history, and in particular the ways it has so consistently,

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“Yet Lives and Fights”: Riots, Resistance, and Reconstruction

November 12, 2016November 12, 2016 Jessica Marie Johnson Fifteenth Amendment, reconstruction, W.E.B. Du Bois

How civil war in the South began again—indeed had never ceased; and how black Prometheus bound to the Rock of

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