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Chocolate Cities: A New Book on the Black Map of American Life

May 26, 2018October 13, 2018 J. T. Roane black protest, blackness, culture, gentrification, Migration, Resistance

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

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The Promise of the Nation of Islam

May 24, 2018June 5, 2018 Robyn C. Spencer #PromiseofPatriarchy, archives, Black women, Nation of Islam, religion, self-determination

This post is part of our online roundtable on Ula Taylor’s The Promise of Patriarchy  Controversy over the Nation of Islam

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Black Women, the Nation of Islam, and the Pursuit of Freedom

May 22, 2018May 26, 2018 Erik S. McDuffie #PromiseofPatriarchy, black nationalism, Black women, Nation of Islam, religion

This post is part of our online roundtable on Ula Taylor’s The Promise of Patriarchy  Ula Y. Taylor stands as one

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Solidarity and Excellence: W.E.B. Du Bois and William Leo Hansberry

May 19, 2018May 22, 2018 Christopher Tinson African Diaspora, black intellectual history, race, teaching, W.E.B. Du Bois

In W. E. B. Du Bois’s The World and Africa, first published in 1946, he writes: “I have read Eduard

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Black Male Genius and the Distortion of Black History

May 17, 2018May 22, 2018 Nicole Jackson Black women, hip hop, music, slavery

In the aftermath of Kanye West’s recent media blitz, there was considerable media attention paid to his parroting and amplifying

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