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Race, History, and the #ScienceMarch

January 30, 2017March 13, 2017 Christopher F. Petrella black politics, Donald Trump, Politics, Trumpism

Donald Trump is an anti-science president. In fact, his entire raison d’être—perhaps unsurprisingly—stands at cross-purposes with the scientific method, systematic

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“Class Struggle Pan-Africanism”: C.L.R. James in Imperial Britain

January 29, 2017February 28, 2017 Paul Hébert Blacks in Britain, C.L.R. James, Marxism, Pan-Africanism

In her contribution to the 1992 edited volume C.L.R. James’s Caribbean, the Jamaican literary scholar Sylvia Wynter coined the term

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Online Forum: “Remembering Malcolm”

January 28, 2017February 16, 2017 AAIHS Editors #RememberingMalcolm

February 19-25, 2017 Black Perspectives is hosting an online forum in recognition of the 52nd anniversary of Malcolm X’s assassination.

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Writing Atrocity, Rethinking Rebellion, and Documenting State Violence

January 25, 2017January 27, 2017 Robert T. Chase #BloodintheWater, carceral state, criminal justice system, mass incarceration

This is the fourth day of our roundtable on Heather Ann Thompson’s book, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison

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Attica Means Fight Back: History and Storytelling as Resistance

January 24, 2017January 26, 2017 Danielle McGuire #BloodintheWater, carceral state, mass incarceration

This is the third day of our roundtable on Heather Ann Thompson’s book, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison

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