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Centering New Negro Politics in the Jim Crow South

November 22, 2016November 20, 2016 J. T. Roane Garveyism, South, Virginia

Far too often, the South, and especially the Black South connote backwardness in the imaginations of scholars and activists alike.

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Announcement: AAIHS/JCHR Roundtable on Heather Ann Thompson’s Blood in the Water

November 20, 2016January 17, 2017 AAIHS Editors carceral state, mass incarceration, New York

January 22-27, 2017 The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS)’s blog–Black Perspectives—is collaborating with the Journal of Civil and Human

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Sitting Shiva: Mourning and Anger in Trump’s America

November 15, 2016November 14, 2016 Patrick Rael freedom

I’ve spent most of my life now studying my country’s history, and in particular the ways it has so consistently,

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“Revolt at the Source:” Cedric Robinson’s Archive of Resistance

November 12, 2016January 2, 2017 Robyn C. Spencer #BlackMarxism, archives, Black Marxism, black radical tradition, Cedric Robinson, Racial Capitalism

This is the final day of our roundtable on Cedric Robinson’s book, Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical

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Conjuring the Black Radical Tradition

November 11, 2016December 30, 2016 Austin McCoy #BlackMarxism, Angela Davis, Black Marxism, black radical tradition

This is the fifth day of our roundtable on Cedric Robinson’s book, Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical

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