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Black Historians, Race, and the Historical Profession

August 23, 2022August 21, 2022 Hettie Williams black intellectual history, education, teaching, W.E.B. Du Bois

“History must restore what slavery took away, for it is the social damage of slavery that the present generations must

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Tricksters, Biographies, and Two-Faced Archives

June 2, 2022June 1, 2022 K. T. Ewing Alberta Hunter, biography, Blues, Chicago, Memphis, Methodology

In 2015, precisely 31 years to the day of her death, blues and cabaret singer Alberta Hunter was inducted into

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Black Perspectives Summer Books Preview, Part I

April 27, 2022April 26, 2022 Robert Greene II art, black intellectual history, black internationalism, black protest

There are a plethora of books being released this summer which will be of special interest to readers of this

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The Black “New South” in Intellectual History 

April 20, 2022April 21, 2022 Robert Greene II Black New South, Historiography, Intellectual History, New South, South

Atlanta protestors and National Guard at Black Lives Matter protest, Atlanta, June 1, 2020 The idea of the New South

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The “Radical” King and a Usable Past

April 4, 2022April 3, 2022 Robert Greene II black intellectual history, black politics, Civil Rights Movement

Last September, Black Perspectives published a piece about Martin Luther King, Jr’s use of the year 1619 as a waypoint

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