Search Results for: abolition

Dark Work: A New Book on the Business of Slavery in Rhode Island

August 30, 2016January 1, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi capitalism, slavery

This post is part of a new and recurring blog series I am editing, which announces the publication of selected

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A Country of Their Own: An American Ex-Slave’s Search for Homeland in Panama

August 23, 2016August 21, 2016 Yesenia Barragan Colombia

While wandering through the maze of microfilm one afternoon at the Archivo General de la Nación in Bogotá, Colombia, I

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The Black Intellectual Tradition and the Myth of Objectivity

August 13, 2016August 12, 2016 Brandon Byrd Manning Marable, W.E.B. Du Bois

By 1899, W.E.B. Du Bois had accomplished more than most people could accomplish in several lifetimes. One bachelor’s degree from

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Fall Teaching in a Trump Climate

August 7, 2016August 6, 2016 Chernoh Sesay Jr. black intellectual history, Donald Trump, Politics, teaching

As the summer comes to an end and I begin to think about teaching in the fall, I wonder how

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Trump Syllabus 2.0: A Supplementary Reading List

August 5, 2016August 2, 2016 Stephen G. Hall Donald Trump, Trumpism

This supplementary reading list is designed to augment the Trump Syllabus 2.0 by N.D.B. Connolly and Keisha N. Blain. In

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