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Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century

September 19, 2018September 25, 2018 Vanessa M. Holden Marriage, Post-Civil War, race, racism, slavery, white supremacy

A recent NPR article entitled “Same-Sex-Marriage Flashpoint: Alabama Considers Quitting The Marriage Business” ⁠included a photo of two African American

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‘Unrequited Toil’: A New Book on the History of U.S. Slavery

September 19, 2018September 25, 2018 Keisha N. Blain capitalism, race, Racial Capitalism, racism, slavery

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

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The Black Arts Movement and Twenty-First-Century Aesthetics

September 18, 2018September 19, 2018 Daniel Matlin Black Arts Movement, black feminism, Black Power, black protest, race

In Percival Everett’s satirical novel Erasure (2001), a struggling author in need of money to pay for his elderly mother’s

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‘BlacKkKlansman’ and William Shockley’s Eugenic Agenda

September 18, 2018September 19, 2018 Alexandra Fair Black film, Black women, film, Ku Klux Klan, white supremacy

Spike Lee’s ‘BlacKkKlansman‘ is a gladiatorial depiction of racism as a past returned into the present. In one of many

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Documentaries for Teaching African American History since 1865

September 17, 2018September 18, 2018 Joshua Clark Davis Black film, film, Jim Crow

Let’s face it: some students do almost no reading in our classes. But even if they seem to rarely crack

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