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African American Freedom and the Illusive “Forty Acres and a Mule”

November 16, 2017November 17, 2017 Karen Cook Bell economic justice, landownership, race, racism, reconstruction, Resistance, South

On August 18, 2016, the United Nations Working Group on Experts of People of African Descent determined that the history

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Black Women’s Voices and the Archive

November 15, 2017November 17, 2017 Halee Robinson archives, Belle Meade Plantation, Black women, Public History, slavery, violence

In 1886, Charles Dudley Warner, a Massachusetts-born writer, traveled to Nashville, Tennessee to learn about the Southern way of life.

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Online Forum: Race, Property, and Economic History

November 12, 2017November 27, 2017 AAIHS Editors economic justice, Race and Economic History, Racial Capitalism, wealth

Black Perspectives, the blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum on Race, Property, and Economic History. The forum begins

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Writing Antiracism in Cuba: An Author’s Response

November 11, 2017November 20, 2017 Devyn Spence Benson #AntiracismInCuba, Cuba

This post is part of our online roundtable on Devyn Spence Benson’s Antiracism in Cuba. I still remember the first paper I wrote

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Centering the Voices of Black Activists in Post-Revolutionary Cuba

November 9, 2017November 13, 2017 Melina Pappademos #AAIHSRoundtable, #AntiracismInCuba, Afro-Cubans, Cuba

This post is part of our online roundtable on Devyn Spence Benson’s Antiracism in Cuba. There are few in the United States who

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