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When It Ain’t Broke: Black Female Representation in Comics

January 9, 2017August 5, 2017 Alyssa Collins #comicsandrace

This guest post is part of our new blog series on Comics, Race, and Society, edited by Julian Chambliss and

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Pedagogy for the World: Black Studies in the Classroom and Beyond

January 8, 2017January 11, 2017 J. T. Roane Activism, black intellectual history, Black Studies

One of the original aims of Black Studies (and the related fields of African-American and Africana Studies) was its pedagogical

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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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The Long History of Black Women’s Exclusion in Historic Marches in Washington

January 4, 2017December 22, 2017 Ashley Farmer Black women, civil rights, Politics

On Saturday, January 21, 2017, the day after the presidential inauguration, thousands of women will descend on the nation’s capital

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Capturing the Spirit of Black Pittsburgh: A Review of “Fences”

January 3, 2017January 5, 2017 Larry Glasco Black film, Jim Crow, poverty, sports

Just after Christmas, I went to see “Fences,” Denzel Washington’s film adaptation of August Wilson’s Pulitzer-Prize-winning play. I went with

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