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Online Forum: HBO’s Watchmen

February 4, 2020February 2, 2020 AAIHS Editors #Watchmen, black politics, comic books, comics, film, forum, popular culture, race, television

February 10–13, 2020 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum on HBO’s hit series

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1619?

January 14, 2020January 12, 2020 Sasha Turner africa, African Diaspora, archives, Historical Memory, slave trade, slavery

We are living in a “memory boom” he says. From Charleston to New York, the national mall and university halls,

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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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Playwright, Storyteller, and Critical Educator: An Interview with Rachel Maddox

December 6, 2019November 30, 2019 J. T. Roane art, Black Queer Identity, Black Queers, education, LGBT, theater

In today’s post, senior editor J.T. Roane interviews, Rachel Maddox who is a Black, non-binary playwright, teaching artist, and critical educator based

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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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