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The Life and Legacy of Political Scientist Hanes Walton, Jr.

November 7, 2018November 11, 2018 Daniel HoSang black intellectual history, black politics, race

In 1970, Vincent Harding contributed an essay to the inaugural issue of the Journal of Black Studies titled “Black Students

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Aretha Franklin, Sexual Violence, and the “Culture of Dissemblance”

November 1, 2018November 5, 2018 Rachel Zellars Activism, Black women, Gender, Resistance, sexual violence

Many have proposed that Black American cultural expressions created in the New World — jazz, the blues, gospel, R&B, the

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Race Women Internationalists and Global Black Freedom Struggles

October 30, 2018November 3, 2018 Shelby M. Sinclair Activism, African Diaspora, black feminism, black intellectual history, black internationalism, Black women, Caribbean, decolonization, Gender, race, racism

In her 1932 article entitled “The Awakening of Race Consciousness among Black Students,” Afro-Jamaican intellectual Una Marson advanced a theory

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Slavery, Land Ownership, and Black Women’s Community Networks

October 25, 2018November 3, 2018 Karen Cook Bell Black women, Gender, race, slavery

Delia Garlic, a former slave in Virginia, Georgia, and Louisiana knew the worst of slavery, including violent punishment and forced

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Sexuality, History, and Britain’s Colonial Legacy

October 23, 2018November 5, 2018 Sasha Turner colonialism, Jamaica, Marriage, religion, white supremacy

A recent editorial letter in the Jamaica Gleaner condemning the newspaper’s feature of popular dance-hall artist, Beenie Man, his so-called Babymama,

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