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Charles W. Mills: In Memoriam

September 29, 2021September 28, 2021 Robert Greene II Activism, black politics, race, teaching

UNIA Parade, Organized in Harlem, 1920 (New York Public Library) It is difficult to imagine recent Black intellectual history without

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The Significance of Yasuke, the Black Samurai

September 15, 2021September 14, 2021 Warren A. Stanislaus Black radicalism, Resistance

After the Second World War, US Soldiers in Japan (flickr.com)   In April 2021 Netflix released the much-anticipated anime series

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The Pittsburgh Courier’s Discursive Power, 1910-1940

September 8, 2021September 6, 2021 Adam Lee Cilli black intellectual history, black protest

“A Negro seaman whose ship was then in Boston Harbor was the first martyr in the cause of American independence,”

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Policing Black Freedom

August 5, 2021August 5, 2021 Philip V. McHarris #contestedcitizenship, Activism, police violence, Resistance, slavery, W.E.B. Du Bois, white supremacy

*This post is part of our roundtable on “Contested Citizenship,” organized in collaboration with the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study

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Online Forum–Contested Citizenship: Legacies of American Slavery

July 26, 2021July 26, 2021 AAIHS Editors #AAIHSRoundtable, black politics, civil rights

August 2, 2021 to August 10, 2021 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is collaborating

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