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Literacy, History, and African American Spirituals

December 13, 2018December 24, 2018 Karen Cook Bell #BlackLivesMatter, race, religion, Resistance, slavery

In his 1935 interview with Alan Lomax and Zora Neale Hurston, Wallace Quarterman, a ninety-one-year-old formerly enslaved man, shared a

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Black Creativity and Imagination at the End of the World

December 11, 2018December 24, 2018 J. T. Roane literature, poetry

Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower and Edwidge Danticat’s The Farming of Bones are set in starkly different times and

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The Civil Rights Movement for Intellectual Change

December 11, 2018December 24, 2018 Joshua Clark Davis Activism, black intellectual history, Civil Rights Movement, Gender

More than half a century since the 1960s, scholars and citizens alike continue to grapple with how our country should

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Race and the Remaking of Trans History: An Author’s Response

December 7, 2018December 10, 2018 C. Riley Snorton #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackonBothSides, archives, Gender, race

*This post is part of our online roundtable on C. Riley Snorton’s Black on Both Sides.  Part I A few weeks ago, on Sunday,

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Transgendering Labor: Black Mothers and Black Men

December 5, 2018December 10, 2018 Ahmad Greene-Hayes #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackonBothSides, Gender

*This post is part of our online roundtable on C. Riley Snorton’s Black on Both Sides. The author discusses the third chapter: ‘Reading the

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