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Abeng and Black Power in the West Indies

October 27, 2015January 28, 2017 Paul Hébert black intellectual history, C.L.R. James, Caribbean, Walter Rodney

My interest in Black Power and post-war Black radicalism more generally grew not out of an initial interest in African-American

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Between Diasporic Consciousness and Cultural Appropriation

October 3, 2015October 3, 2015 Janell Hobson

Last month, writer Zipporah Gene, of Nigerian descent, set off a firestorm when she accused African Americans of “culturally appropriating”

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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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