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‘Force and Freedom’: A New Book About Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence

February 1, 2019March 31, 2019 J. T. Roane abolitionism

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

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Black Thought and Sexual Politics: An Interview with Guy Emerson Mount

January 17, 2019January 29, 2019 Chris Shell black intellectual history, Frederick Douglass, Interracial relationships

In today’s post, Christopher Shell, a PhD student at Michigan State University, interviews historian Guy Emerson Mount about his chapter in New Perspectives on Black

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Race and Service in the Pacific During World War II

January 16, 2019January 29, 2019 Karen Cook Bell Activism, book review, military, Pacific War

Historian John Dower has noted that “apart from the genocide of the Jews, racism remains one of the great neglected

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#AAIHS2019: Black Internationalism–Then and Now

January 7, 2019January 29, 2019 Annette Joseph-Gabriel

The upcoming fourth annual conference of the African American Intellectual History Society will feature an exciting line up of sessions

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Brazilian Politics and the Rise of the Far-Right

January 7, 2019January 29, 2019 Daniela Gomes Afro-Brazilians, Brazil, repression, Resistance

On October 28, Brazil elected its 38th President, Jair Bolsonaro, making a core of his 57 million supporters extremely happy

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