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#SummerReading: Recommended New Books on the Black Experience

June 11, 2018June 16, 2018 Ibram X. Kendi black intellectual history

With summer quickly approaching, I have compiled a list of recommended new non-fiction books. All of these books, which were

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W.E.B. Du Bois, Gender, and Black History

June 5, 2018June 16, 2018 Lavelle Porter black intellectual history, literature, Resistance, W.E.B. Du Bois, white supremacy

In Axel’s Castle, critic Edmund Wilson wrote of Gertrude Stein’s enigmatic novel of nearly a thousand pages, The Making of Americans,

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Black Swimmers and Diasporic Understandings of Water

June 4, 2018June 16, 2018 Celeste Henery Black Europe, Blacks in Britain, sports

James “Jim” Clarke was a Guyanese-born celebrated swimmer and diasporic pioneer. I first learned of him through a photo at the International

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The Illusion of Progress in the Story of American Democracy

May 29, 2018June 5, 2018 Rebecca Brenner Graham black intellectual history, democracy, Frederick Douglass, literature, Politics, slavery, W.E.B. Du Bois

The word progress is central to contemporary political rhetoric. Self-described progressives work toward what they see as positive change. Meanwhile, a

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Afro-Latin American Studies: A New Book on an Emerging Field

May 28, 2018June 5, 2018 Keisha N. Blain Afro-Brazilians, Afro-Latin, Brazil, Cuba

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

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