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Black Nationalist Women’s Global Visions of Freedom

September 24, 2018October 1, 2018 Carole Boyce Davies Amy Ashwood Garvey, black nationalism, black women's internationalism, Claudia Jones, Set the World on Fire

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Keisha N. Blain’s Set the World on Fire A welcome addition to the library of

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Gloria Richardson and the Struggle for Black Liberation

September 21, 2018September 25, 2018 Joseph R. Fitzgerald Activism, Black Power, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, race, Resistance

This is an excerpt from Joseph R. Fitzgerald’s The Struggle is Eternal: Gloria Richardson and Black Liberation, scheduled to be published

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Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century

September 19, 2018September 25, 2018 Vanessa M. Holden Marriage, Post-Civil War, race, racism, slavery, white supremacy

A recent NPR article entitled “Same-Sex-Marriage Flashpoint: Alabama Considers Quitting The Marriage Business” ⁠included a photo of two African American

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The Black Arts Movement and Twenty-First-Century Aesthetics

September 18, 2018September 19, 2018 Daniel Matlin Black Arts Movement, black feminism, Black Power, black protest, race

In Percival Everett’s satirical novel Erasure (2001), a struggling author in need of money to pay for his elderly mother’s

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‘Jezebel Unhinged’: A New Book on the Black Female Body in Religion and Culture

September 17, 2018September 18, 2018 J. T. Roane black feminism, Black women, Gender, religion

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

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