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The Windrush Crisis and Britain’s Memory Problem

May 1, 2018May 5, 2018 Adam Thomas Blacks in Britain, Immigration, police brutality, slave trade

Black Britons have occupied a prominent place in national and global politics in recent weeks. The British government has been criticized

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The Capitalist Foundations of Racialization

April 30, 2018May 5, 2018 Charisse Burden-Stelly colonialism, economic justice, slave trade

Racialization—one process of regulating, organizing, and subjecting populations through capital and labor—is integral to and endemic in the capitalist world-system. It

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A Womanist Perspective of the Black Power Movement

April 23, 2018April 28, 2018 Akinyele Umoja #RemakingBlackPower, black feminism, Black Panther Party, black protest, Black women, Gender

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Ashley Farmer’s Remaking Black Power Ashley D. Farmer’s Remaking Black Power:

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#AAIHS2018: Reflecting on the Past’s Presence 3.0

April 11, 2018April 13, 2018 Phillip Luke Sinitiere Activism, black intellectual history, black internationalism, black politics, Black radicalism, Black women

I’m grateful to continue the tradition of offering an AAIHS conference summary again this year, as I did in 2016

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“Free the Land!”: Fifty Years of the Republic of New Afrika

April 10, 2018April 30, 2018 Dan Berger black nationalism, Black radicalism, self-determination

An impressive assortment of Black radicals gathered to sign the Declaration of Independence. It was not Philadelphia 1776, of course,

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