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Like Praying: Puerto Rico on a Map

October 28, 2017October 31, 2017 Jessica Marie Johnson Caribbean, Donald Trump

“Although the plantation tradition has been relegated to the dustbin of history by some social theorists, it continues to survive

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From Sentiment to Struggle: Combating White Supremacy and Liberal Idealism

October 21, 2017October 24, 2017 Russell Rickford Activism, black protest, Donald Trump, police violence, Resistance, student activism

*This post is the transcript of remarks read at the recent Cornell faculty “kneel-in” against racism. Almost any expression of collectivity can

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Not a Classic: The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual

October 18, 2017October 21, 2017 Daniel Geary black intellectual history, Harold Cruse

*This post is part of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History’s recent roundtable on Harold Cruse’s The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual (1967).

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The Life of Pauli Murray: An Interview with Rosalind Rosenberg

October 16, 2017October 21, 2017 Alyssa Collins black feminism, Black Queers, blackness, Gender, intersectionality, law, religion, sexuality

In today’s post, Alyssa Collins, PhD candidate in the Department of English at the University of Virginia, interviews Rosalind Rosenberg

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The Complexities of Racial and Religious Identities

September 29, 2017October 1, 2017 Tisa Wenger #AAIHSRoundtable, #NewWorld, black nationalism, Nation of Islam

This post is part of our online roundtable on Judith Weisenfeld’s New World A-Coming Judith Weisenfeld’s exhaustively researched and analytically brilliant new book,

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