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Black Feminist Futures: A Reading List

April 14, 2017April 17, 2017 Kathleen E. Bethel black feminism, black politics, Black women

In 1994, Ann duCille proclaimed that black feminism occupies a precarious status within the academy, due, in part, to its

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Black Land Ownership and Megaproject Development in Nicaragua

April 8, 2017April 11, 2017 Jennifer Goett Black women, capitalism, Latin America, racism

Afro-Nicaraguans have been living in the shadow of infrastructure megaprojects for more than a century as both landholders and laborers.

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New President, Same Old Deal: The Parallels Between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Donald J. Trump

April 3, 2017April 6, 2017 Ameer Hasan Loggins Donald Trump, presidents, racism, Trumpism

An evaluation of the first 100 days of the new President of the United States has become a tradition of

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Reproductive Rights and Race Struggle in the Decolonizing Caribbean

April 1, 2017April 5, 2017 Nicole Bourbonnais Caribbean, civil rights, colonialism

On May 27, 1935, hundreds of Bermudians gathered in a protest chaired by barrister David Tucker, member of the League

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“Held in Trust by History:” The Intellectual Activism of Lerone Bennett Jr.

March 16, 2017March 18, 2017 Christopher Tinson Activism, black intellectual history, Historiography

On the morning of December 11, 2016, a notice in the Chicago area news read as follows: “Author Lerone Bennett

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