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New Releases in African American Intellectual History

September 5, 2015September 13, 2015 Chris Cameron

Below are new books in African American intellectual history soon to be published or already published within the last 6

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Jean-Michel Basquiat: Black. Intellectual. Historian.

August 31, 2015September 2, 2015 Guy Emerson Mount T. Thomas Fortune, Ta-Nehisi Coates

  [CLICK IMAGES FOR HIGHER RESOLUTION] Last week I moved to Harlem.  On Sunday I spent the day with Jean

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On the use of “Slave Mistress”

August 21, 2015August 21, 2015 Emily Owens

  The passing of the great civil-rights leader Julian Bond earlier this week ignited a firestorm of activity on Twitter.

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What is Happening in Waller County?: Sandra Bland and the Sister Comrades Who #sayhername

August 12, 2015August 12, 2015 Phillip Luke Sinitiere

On Friday, July 10, 2015, just outside of the campus of Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) in Waller County, a

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Radical Transcripts Hidden in Plain View: Excavating and Recovering “Negro Toilers” in the Communist Archive

July 27, 2015December 30, 2016 Guest Poster #AAIHSRoundtable, Communism, Garveyism, Pan-Africanism

This is the third day of the AAIHS’ roundtable on Hakim Adi’s Pan-Africanism and Communism. On the first day, we

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