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The Contours of Black Intellectual History

November 15, 2018November 19, 2018 AAIHS Editors black intellectual history

This is an excerpt of the introduction to New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition (Northwestern University Press, 2018) edited by Keisha N.

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Black Lives Matter: Not a Moment, But a Movement

November 13, 2018November 19, 2018 Jenn M. Jackson #BlackLivesMatter, Activism, black lives matter, black politics, Racial Violence, Resistance

Though it was first created as a hashtag in 2013 as a response to Trayvon Martin’s death at the hands

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Black Fists, Black Pride, and the 1968 Summer Olympics

November 7, 2018November 11, 2018 Louis Moore Activism, black politics, Black Power, black protest, Civil Rights Movement, Resistance

Black fists. Black men. Black pride. That’s how we will always remember bronze medalist John Carlos and gold medalist Tommie

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Black Rebellion and the Political Imaginations of African American Teachers

November 5, 2018November 11, 2018 Jarvis R. Givens black radical tradition, Black radicalism, education, Harriet Tubman, Nat Turner, teaching

Nat Turner became an impromptu topic of discussion in my third grade classroom. Ms. Todman had a way of getting

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German Appropriation of Black Popular Culture

November 2, 2018November 3, 2018 Jamele Watkins African Diaspora, Black Europe, Germany, masculinity

Black German Studies has focused on women’s writing over the past thirty years. Priscilla Layne’s White Rebels in Black is

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