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Totalitarian Century: A New Book on Geopolitics in the Black Literary Imagination

January 8, 2017January 11, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi black intellectual history, black internationalism, black politics, W.E.B. Du Bois

This post is part of my blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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Slavery, the 13th Amendment, and Mass Incarceration: A Response to Patrick Rael

December 12, 2016December 13, 2016 Dennis R. Childs 13th Amendment, convict leasing

This post is a rebuttal to Patrick Rael’s “Demystifying the 13th Amendment and Its Impact on Mass Incarceration.” Dear Professor

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Demystifying the 13th Amendment and Its Impact on Mass Incarceration

December 9, 2016December 8, 2016 Patrick Rael 13th Amendment, emancipation, mass incarceration

We’re learning a lot these days about the historical roots of mass incarceration. Michelle Alexander’s wildly successful book, The New

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A Time of Monsters: Corporate Liberalism and The Rise of Trumpism

November 25, 2016January 2, 2017 Russell Rickford Barack Obama, diversity, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton

“The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this

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Racial Violence and America’s Civil Rights Century: An Interview with Jason Morgan Ward

November 14, 2016November 12, 2016 Stephen G. Hall black politics, Black women, Jim Crow, lynching, Mississippi, NAACP

In today’s guest post, Stephen G. Hall interviews  Jason Morgan Ward about his new book, Hanging Bridge: Racial Violence and

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