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Haitian and French Petrol Protests in the Age of Climate Change

January 28, 2019January 29, 2019 Crystal Eddins black protest, Caribbean, France, Haiti

For the past several months, major unrest has occurred almost simultaneously in both Haiti and France over rising gas prices,

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Fugitive Slaves and the Quest for Freedom

January 24, 2019January 29, 2019 Jessica Parr fugitivity, law, Resistance, slavery

The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 intended to resolve whether free states had a legal obligation to return fugitive enslaved

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The Radical Hope of Octavia Butler

January 22, 2019January 29, 2019 Lavelle Porter Black women, literature, Racial Violence

When I assigned Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower for my Introduction to Fiction classes this fall, I was fearful

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Race and Service in the Pacific During World War II

January 16, 2019January 29, 2019 Karen Cook Bell Activism, book review, military, Pacific War

Historian John Dower has noted that “apart from the genocide of the Jews, racism remains one of the great neglected

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Rhodes Must Fall: A New Book on the Oxford Student Movement

January 2, 2019January 29, 2019 Keisha N. Blain Activism, decolonization, race, Resistance, South Africa, student activism, white supremacy

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

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