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Fire in Babylon and The Racial Politics of West Indian Cricket

May 27, 2016May 27, 2016 Paul Hébert black internationalism, C.L.R. James, Caribbean

“What do they know of cricket who only cricket know?” asked C.L.R. James in Beyond a Boundary, his 1962 study

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We Are An African People and the Dynamism of Black Power Studies

April 26, 2016April 26, 2016 Guest Poster #AAIHSRoundtable, #WeAreAnAfricanPeople, black intellectual history, black nationalism, Black Power Studies

This is the second day of our roundtable on Russell Rickford’s book, We Are an African People: Independent Education, Black

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Student Evaluations, Race, Politics, and “American Values”

April 7, 2016April 6, 2016 Chernoh Sesay Jr. black intellectual history, black politics, teaching

At the end of every term, with great trepidation, meditative breathing, and perhaps even a homemade cocktail, I look to

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The Mysterious Thelma X and the Struggle of Black Domestic Workers

April 3, 2016April 3, 2016 Garrett Felber black nationalism, Black women, Nation of Islam

Several years ago, I was looking through the papers of sociologist C. Eric Lincoln at the Robert W. Woodruff Library

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#AAIHS2016: New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition (Day Two)

March 11, 2016March 15, 2016 Guest Poster

Today is the second day of our conference, “New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition,” at the University of North

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