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Totalitarian Century: A New Book on Geopolitics in the Black Literary Imagination

January 8, 2017January 11, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi black intellectual history, black internationalism, black politics, W.E.B. Du Bois

This post is part of my blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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Fashioning Lives: A New Book on Black Queers and the Politics of Literacy

January 6, 2017January 8, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi black feminism, Black Queers, Literary studies

This post is part of my blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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“This is a Country for White Men”: White Supremacy and U.S. Politics

January 5, 2017January 8, 2017 Guest Poster white supremacy

*Co-Authored by Christopher Petrella and Ameer Hasan Loggins In December 2016, A&E announced the January 10 premiere of Generation KKK, an

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The Defender: A New Book on Chicago’s Legendary Black Newspaper

January 3, 2017January 5, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi Chicago, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement

This post is part of my blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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Christmas and Resistance to Slavery in the Americas

December 23, 2016April 21, 2017 Yesenia Barragan Christmas, Colombia, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman

It was a humid Christmas day in 1820 when twenty-five-year-old Santiago Martínez presented himself before the army commander stationed in

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