Militant Visions: A New Book on Black Soldiers, Internationalism, and American Cinema
This post is part of a new and recurring blog series I am editing, which announces the publication of selected
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Rebuilding the Robesonian Labor Movement
This post is an amended version of a speech delivered at the Tompkins County Workers Center’s Labor Day Picnic at
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The Difficulty of Uncovering Obscure Lives and Hidden Histories
Today is the fifth day of our roundtable on LaShawn Harris’s new book, Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black
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Beyond Today’s Vote: Constructions of Black Identity Then and Now
“The political and cultural identities of black people have never been reducible to a discrete and unified list of interests
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What is Afro-Latin America?
From Mexico to Brazil and beyond, Africans and people of African descent have fought in wars of independence, forged mixed
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