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The Distinction Between Slavery and Race in U.S. History

November 27, 2016November 25, 2016 Patrick Rael Constitution, Electoral College

The history of the Electoral College is receiving a lot of attention. Pieces like this one, which explores “the electoral

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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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Centering New Negro Politics in the Jim Crow South

November 22, 2016November 20, 2016 J. T. Roane Garveyism, South, Virginia

Far too often, the South, and especially the Black South connote backwardness in the imaginations of scholars and activists alike.

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Announcement: AAIHS/JCHR Roundtable on Heather Ann Thompson’s Blood in the Water

November 20, 2016January 17, 2017 AAIHS Editors carceral state, mass incarceration, New York

January 22-27, 2017 The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS)’s blog–Black Perspectives—is collaborating with the Journal of Civil and Human

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Sitting Shiva: Mourning and Anger in Trump’s America

November 15, 2016November 14, 2016 Patrick Rael freedom

I’ve spent most of my life now studying my country’s history, and in particular the ways it has so consistently,

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