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Top 10 of 2018 – #8 – The Persistence of Institutional Sexism in Africana Studies

December 19, 2018December 24, 2018 Carole Boyce Davies #TopTen

*Editor’s Note: As the year comes to a close, we’re featuring the ten most popular pieces we published on Black Perspectives. This essay–ranked number

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Reclaiming the Black Past: A New Book on the Use and Misuse of African American History

December 12, 2018December 24, 2018 Keisha N. Blain black intellectual history, Historical Memory

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

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Rastafarians and Pan-Africanism in the Age of Decolonization

October 3, 2018October 8, 2018 Michael Barnett African Diaspora, black internationalism, Black Power, Pan-Africanism

Monique Bedasse’s Jah Kingdom: Rastafarians, Tanzania, and Pan-Africanism in the Age of Decolonization makes a commendable and sterling contribution to the body

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‘African Americans and the Pacific War’: A New Book on Race and Nationality

October 1, 2018October 3, 2018 Keisha N. Blain black internationalism, Pacific War

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 Persistence of Institutional Sexism in Africana Studies

September 17, 2018September 19, 2018 Carole Boyce Davies Black women, education

While institutional racism under the current U.S. administration is identified as being more prominent and therefore more recognizable, institutional sexism, its

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