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Community Politics and Grassroots Activism during the 1920s: An Interview with Shannon King

December 10, 2015December 9, 2015 Keisha N. Blain black politics, Harlem, Politics

This month, I interviewed Shannon King about his new book, Whose Harlem Is This, Anyway? Community Politics and Grassroots Activism

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Rethinking Black Internationalism and Mass Politics in the Interwar Period (Reena Goldthree)

November 26, 2015November 26, 2015 Reena Goldthree #AAIHSRoundtable, #AgeofGarvey, black internationalism, Caribbean, Garveyism, Marcus Garvey, Universal Negro Improvement Association

This is the fourth day of our roundtable on Adam Ewing’s book, The Age of Garvey: How a Jamaican Activist

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Abeng and Black Power in the West Indies

October 27, 2015January 28, 2017 Paul Hébert black intellectual history, C.L.R. James, Caribbean, Walter Rodney

My interest in Black Power and post-war Black radicalism more generally grew not out of an initial interest in African-American

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James Baldwin Review

October 21, 2015October 20, 2015 Phillip Luke Sinitiere

In his 2010 CD Sophomore Slump, the Jackson, Mississippi-based artist Skipp Coon rapped in the opening track “James,” “From where

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State of the Field Roundtable at #ASALH100

October 6, 2015October 6, 2015 Chris Cameron

At the recent meeting of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, I had the pleasure

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