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The Black Roots of “Rights and Privileges”

August 6, 2021August 6, 2021 Kerri Greenidge #AAIHSRoundtable, #contestedcitizenship, Anti-Lynching, black politics, human rights, race

“This post is part of our roundtable on “Contested Citizenship,” organized in collaboration with the Gilder Lehrman Center for the

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Marxism and Black Liberation: The Work of Raya Dunayevskaya

July 5, 2021July 4, 2021 Eugene Gogol black intellectual history, black radical tradition

Marxism, which played a role in Black Liberation ideas in the decades immediately after the Russian Revolution, and again during

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Ralph Ellison’s Juneteenth and Black Literary History

June 24, 2021June 24, 2021 Benji de la Piedra art, black intellectual history, black politics, Resistance

In 1965, Ralph Ellison published a short story called “Juneteenth.” It was a central excerpt of his long-awaited novel-in-progress. Ellison

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Sounds of Freedom: The Music of Black Liberation

April 13, 2021April 11, 2021 AAIHS Editors Black Power, music

Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black

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Black Soldiers and the Civil War

April 8, 2021April 18, 2021 Aston Gonzalez Black women, race, Resistance, slavery

Shortly after the Emancipation Proclamation enabled African American men to enlist in the Union army in 1863, Alexander Thomas Augusta

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