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Introducing “Black Perspectives”

December 11, 2016December 10, 2016 Keisha N. Blain

Dear readers, Thank you all for enthusiastically supporting the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS). The blog has been doing

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The Audacity of “Nope”: Why a Trump Presidency Is No Surprise

December 5, 2016March 17, 2017 Trimiko Melancon 2016 Presidential Election, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, W.E.B. Du Bois

After the 2008 election of Barack H. Obama, the 44th President of the United States, it became customary for some

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The Revolution Has Come: A New Book on Gender and the Black Panther Party

December 2, 2016December 2, 2016 Ibram X. Kendi Black Panther Party, California

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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Black Power’s Global Pulse

November 30, 2016November 30, 2016 Quito J. Swan Black Panther Party, black radical tradition

This year, the Black Panther Party (BPP), arguably the most influential Black Power organization, celebrated fifty years since its founding.

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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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