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An Investigation of ‘Political Kingdom’

November 27, 2019November 24, 2019 Musab Younis #AAIHSRoundtable, #WorldmakingafterEmpire, African Diaspora, Anticolonialism, black internationalism, colonialism, decolonization

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Adom Getachew’s Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination When the South African

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The Last Lynching Victim in South Carolina

October 31, 2019October 25, 2019 Brent M. S. Campney book review, Historical Memory, Jim Crow, lynching, Racial Violence, racism, South

In They Stole Him Out of Jail: Willie Earle, South Carolina’s Last Lynching Victim, William B. Gravely, professor emeritus at

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Sexual Violence Against Enslaved Men

October 29, 2019October 28, 2019 Kevin C. Quin masculinity, Racial Violence, sexual violence, sexuality, slavery

In Rethinking Rufus: Sexual Violations of Enslaved Men, historian Thomas Foster examines how the conditions of slavery gave rise to

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No Longer Invisible, An African American Woman’s Journey

October 23, 2019October 18, 2019 Ida E. Jones #RosalynTerborgPenn, African Diaspora, black intellectual history, Black women, education, pedagogy, race

*This post is part of our online forum  organized by Stephen G. Hall honoring the life and work of Dr.

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To Fulfill These Rights: A New Book About the Struggle Over Affirmative Action and Open Admissions

October 18, 2019October 17, 2019 J. T. Roane Activism, affirmative action, black protest, Resistance, student activism

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

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