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Like Praying: Puerto Rico on a Map

October 28, 2017October 31, 2017 Jessica Marie Johnson Caribbean, Donald Trump

“Although the plantation tradition has been relegated to the dustbin of history by some social theorists, it continues to survive

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Jah Kingdom: A New Book on the Rastafarian Movement in Tanzania

October 26, 2017October 30, 2017 Julie Hawks decolonization, Jamaica, Pan-Africanism, Rastafarianism, repatriation, Tanzania

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

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Harold Cruse’s Ruthless Criticism

October 20, 2017October 21, 2017 Andrew Hartman black intellectual history, black nationalism, Black radicalism, Harold Cruse

*This post is part of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History’s recent roundtable on Harold Cruse’s The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual (1967). Click here to

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The End of Policing: A New Book on the Problem of Policing

October 19, 2017October 24, 2017 Julie Hawks police brutality, policing

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

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Why the Vote Wasn’t Enough for Selma: A New Book on Economic Justice

October 17, 2017October 21, 2017 Julie Hawks economic justice

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

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