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“Black People and the Victorian Ethos:” Respectability Politics, Black Organizing, and Black Power

March 17, 2015March 17, 2015 Ashley Farmer

When someone is engaging in respectability politics, he or she is adopts the manners and morality of the dominant or

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Women’s History Month: The Legacy of the Fight over the 15th Amendment

March 2, 2015March 2, 2015 Noelle Trent Fifteenth Amendment, Frederick Douglass

                     During the past week, Patricia Arquette’s comments during her Oscars acceptance speech have ignited debate across

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On “Transpacific Antiracism”: An Interview with Yuichiro Onishi

February 26, 2015February 25, 2015 Keisha N. Blain Afro-Asia, Japan, W.E.B. Du Bois

This post is the second of a series on Afro-Asia in which I explore the myriad political strategies, alliances, and

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The Deep Roots of Afro-Asia

January 30, 2015February 11, 2016 Keisha N. Blain Afro-Asia

This post is the first of a short series on Afro-Asia—the cultural and political exchanges and historical connections between people

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