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Broomsticks and Material Cultures of Cleanliness in American Slavery

November 8, 2018November 11, 2018 Tyler Parry Gender, Resistance, slavery, South

In 1901 preeminent Black Sociologist W.E.B. Du Dois published an essay entitled, “The Home of the Slave,” which detailed his

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Alain Locke: Father of the Harlem Renaissance

November 6, 2018November 11, 2018 Anastasia Curwood Harlem, Harlem Renaissance

Sometime during the Great Depression, a young working-class Black man acquired a 1925 first-edition copy of The New Negro: An

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Race Women Internationalists and Global Black Freedom Struggles

October 30, 2018November 3, 2018 Shelby M. Sinclair Activism, African Diaspora, black feminism, black intellectual history, black internationalism, Black women, Caribbean, decolonization, Gender, race, racism

In her 1932 article entitled “The Awakening of Race Consciousness among Black Students,” Afro-Jamaican intellectual Una Marson advanced a theory

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The Complexities of Race, Class, and Gender on Television

October 17, 2018October 21, 2018 Keelyn Bradley film

Following the recent fallout over Roseanne Barr’s racist comments, ABC introduced a spinoff show, The Conners, in an attempt to

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Dignity, Work, and Race Capitalism

October 15, 2018October 17, 2018 James Padilioni Jr capitalism, race

Recently, a photo of The Cosby Show alum Geoffrey Owens surfaced that showed the actor working as a cashier at

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