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Spirits Rejoice!: Jazz and American Religion (Book Review)

September 28, 2015September 29, 2015 Guy Emerson Mount culture, music, religion

  Jason C. Bivins. Spirits Rejoice!: Jazz and American Religion. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. Pp.xvi, 369. $29.95 I first met Oluyemi

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The Communist International and the “Negro Question”

July 28, 2015January 4, 2017 Guest Poster #AAIHSRoundtable, Communism, Pan-Africanism

This is the fourth day of the AAIHS’ roundtable on Hakim Adi’s Pan-Africanism and Communism. On the first day, we

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Nothing is Impossible: Black History and Black Futures as a Flag Falls

July 12, 2015July 12, 2015 Jessica Marie Johnson #BlackLivesMatter, #CharlestonSyllabus, Activism, Ferguson, freedom, reconstruction, slavery, South Carolina

At dawn on June 27, 2015, Bree Newsome (with support from local activists) scaled the flag pole in front of

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Roundtable on Black Women’s Intellectual History Day 5: Barbara Savage Responds

June 4, 2015June 4, 2015 Lauren Kientz Anderson review of black women's intellectual history

by Barbara Savage University of Pennsylvania This is the fifith day of our roundtable reviewing the book Toward a History of Black

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Slave Trading and the “When” of Gender

March 15, 2015March 16, 2015 Greg Childs

In 1798, in the captaincy of Pernambuco in the northeast region of the Portuguese colony of Brazil, a young woman

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