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Remembering the Grenada Revolution: A Review of David Scott’s Omens of Adversity

November 29, 2016November 27, 2016 Paul Hébert Grenada, trauma

Scholars are increasingly turning their attention to the Grenada revolution, a critical event in the history of West Indian radical

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Colored Travelers: A New Book on Mobility and the Fight for Citizenship

November 28, 2016November 27, 2016 Ibram X. Kendi travel

This post is part of a blog series I am editing, which announces the release of selected new works in African

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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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