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The History of White Investment in Black Suffering

April 16, 2019August 12, 2022 Stacie Mccormick race, Racial Violence, racism, white supremacy

Possessing the Black body is as popular now as it has ever been. The recent college yearbook controversies depicting students in

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A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None: A New Book About Race and Geology

April 12, 2019August 12, 2022 Leah Kaplan Anthropocene, black feminism, environment, geography

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

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We Live for the We: A New Book on the Political Power of Black Motherhood

April 9, 2019August 12, 2022 J. T. Roane Activism, black feminism, black protest, Black women, Gender, motherhood, Racial Violence

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

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Race and the Politics of Knowledge Production in African Studies

April 8, 2019August 12, 2022 Marius Kothor africa, African Diaspora, black intellectual history, black politics, Black Studies, education, Pan-Africanism, race, racism, white supremacy

In the United States, African scholars are conspicuously underrepresented in the field of African Studies. For years, Black scholars have

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The Black Arts Movement and “A Nation Within a Nation”

April 3, 2019August 12, 2022 James Smethurst #NationWithinANation, Activism, Black Arts Movement, Black Panther Party, black politics, Black Power, black protest, Black radicalism, race

*This post is part of our online roundtable celebrating the 20-year anniversary of the publication of Komozi Woodard’s A Nation Within

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