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“Swinging While I’m Singing”: Spike Lee, Public Enemy, and the Message in the Music

June 24, 2019June 22, 2019 Mark Anthony Neal Black film, black politics, film series, hip hop, music, police brutality, race, Resistance, women in film

“1989, a number, another summer, sound of the funky drummer” —Public Enemy, “Fight the Power” The scene may be the

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Beyond the ‘Great Men’ Canon of Black Intellectual History

June 11, 2019June 9, 2019 La TaSha Levy #AAIHSRoundtable, #RethinkingAAIH, black intellectual history, black internationalism, Black political thought, black politics, Black women, education, Politics, race

*This post is part of our online forum titled “What is African American Intellectual History?“ African American intellectual history is

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Harlem as Setting and Symbol

June 6, 2019June 16, 2019 LaShawn Harris Activism, black politics, culture, gentrification, Harlem, Harlem Renaissance

Examining Harlem’s long career as “setting and symbol” of African American and Diasporic life and culture, Race Capital?: Harlem as Setting

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Deferred Freedom Dreams in the Quest for Black Economic Citizenship

May 8, 2019May 8, 2019 Westenley Alcenat Constitution, economic justice, law, Racial Capitalism, slavery

A little more than 153 years ago, in the aftermath of the Civil War, Radical Republicans in the United States

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Mack Ingram and the Policing of Black Sexuality

May 7, 2019May 5, 2019 Denise Lynn Activism, black protest, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, Gender, Jim Crow, race, Racial Violence, racism, white supremacy

In 1951, Mack Ingram was arrested, found guilty, and sentenced to two years of hard labor for looking at a

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