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Wayward Negro Religions in the 20th Century Slum

May 21, 2020May 17, 2020 Ahmad Greene-Hayes #AAIHSRoundtable, #WaywardLives, black feminism, black intellectual history, Black women, Gender, religion

*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with the Journal of African American History. The beautiful anarchy of

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“An Oasis in Turbulent Times”: Black Towns, Black Futures

May 7, 2020May 3, 2020 Camille Goldmon blackness, entrepreneurs, Historical Memory

Mound Bayou, Mississippi, founded by Isaiah T. Montgomery—formerly enslaved by Joseph Davis—and his relative Benjamin Green, tells a story of

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W.E.B. Du Bois: A New Book on The Life of a Radical Scholar

May 1, 2020April 26, 2020 J. T. Roane biography, Black radicalism, W.E.B. Du Bois

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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Art for the People’s Sake: Chicago’s Black Arts Movement

April 16, 2020April 12, 2020 Tracey Johnson art, Black Arts Movement, Black Power, book review, Chicago, Visual Culture

The past five years have brought numerous fifty-year Civil Rights and Black Power Movement commemorations to the fore. Last year,

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Worldmaking after Empire: An Author’s Response

November 29, 2019November 24, 2019 Adom Getachew #AAIHSRoundtable, #WorldmakingafterEmpire, africa, African Diaspora, Anticolonialism, black internationalism, Caribbean, colonialism, decolonization

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Adom Getachew’s Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination I want to thank

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