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Global 2016 and the Radical Imagination

July 20, 2016July 17, 2016 Russell Rickford #BlackLivesMatter, police brutality, police violence

“We have a duty to fight for our freedom. We have a duty to win.” – Assata Shakur Watching the

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La Esclava Blanca: The New Telenovela Rewriting Colombia’s History of Slavery

July 6, 2016July 1, 2016 Guest Poster Colombia, Latin America

This is a guest post by Yesenia Barragan, a historian of race, slavery, and emancipation in Colombia, Afro-Latin America, and

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Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome is a Racist Idea

June 21, 2016June 21, 2016 Ibram X. Kendi trauma

For a generation of open-minded Americans, the original Roots miniseries in 1977 uprooted fields of racist ideas of backward Africa,

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When Scholars Cry: Celebrating the Career of Thomas C. Holt

May 28, 2016June 4, 2016 Guy Emerson Mount black intellectual history, black politics, black protest

If you’ve never seen a historian cry, you’re probably hanging out with the wrong historians. The day you see multiple

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What Obama’s Trip to Havana Revealed about Race in Cuba and the U.S.

May 5, 2016May 5, 2016 Devyn Spence Benson Afrxlatinidad, Barack Obama, black politics, Caribbean, Cuba

During his groundbreaking visit to Havana last month, President Barack Obama suggested that the embrace of U.S.-style democracy and capitalism

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