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Rethinking Black Internationalism and Mass Politics in the Interwar Period (Reena Goldthree)

November 26, 2015November 26, 2015 Reena Goldthree #AAIHSRoundtable, #AgeofGarvey, black internationalism, Caribbean, Garveyism, Marcus Garvey, Universal Negro Improvement Association

This is the fourth day of our roundtable on Adam Ewing’s book, The Age of Garvey: How a Jamaican Activist

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Without Exception ?

November 16, 2015 Greg Childs

In 1798, Luís Gonzaga, a free man of African descent was arrested for promoting rebellion against slavery and colonialism in

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When Cops Kill the Terrorists Win

October 28, 2015October 28, 2015 Guy Emerson Mount #BlackLivesMatter, Activism, black internationalism, Black Panthers, black politics, black protest, capitalism, Chicago, Ferguson, imperialism, W.E.B. Du Bois

  On June 15, 1969 the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, J. Edgar Hoover, famously declared that the

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Visible Fugitives

October 16, 2015 Greg Childs

Often times when students hear me lecture about the famed Brazilian quilombo (runaway settlement) of Palmares, they want to know

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African American Intellectual History before the American Revolution

October 14, 2015October 13, 2015 Jared Hardesty black intellectual history, colonial America, slavery

As a historian of slavery and colonial America, I have to admit I was a bit taken aback when asked

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