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Where Has All the Loving Gone? A Review of the New Film, ‘Loving’

November 27, 2016October 4, 2017 Peter Cole Virginia

A new film about the Southern working class couple whose love and dedication broke the back of anti-miscegenation laws across

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The Distinction Between Slavery and Race in U.S. History

November 27, 2016November 25, 2016 Patrick Rael Constitution, Electoral College

The history of the Electoral College is receiving a lot of attention. Pieces like this one, which explores “the electoral

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In the Heat of the Summer: A New Book on the 1964 New York Rebellions

November 25, 2016November 25, 2016 Ibram X. Kendi criminal justice system, New York

This post is part of a blog series I am editing, which announces the release of selected new works in African

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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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