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The Complexities and Contradictions of the Nation of Islam

May 21, 2018May 26, 2018 Asia Leeds #PromiseofPatriarchy, black nationalism, Black women, Nation of Islam, religion

This post is part of our online roundtable on Ula Taylor’s The Promise of Patriarchy  In The Promise of Patriarchy: Women

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Black Male Genius and the Distortion of Black History

May 17, 2018May 22, 2018 Nicole Jackson Black women, hip hop, music, slavery

In the aftermath of Kanye West’s recent media blitz, there was considerable media attention paid to his parroting and amplifying

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The Globalization of American Racial Exclusion

May 15, 2018May 22, 2018 Westenley Alcenat race, Racial Violence, W.E.B. Du Bois, white supremacy

In hindsight, historians of American immigration will be pressed to name the first two decades of the twenty-first century as

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The United States and Colonial Zimbabwe: Pan-African Linkages

May 14, 2018May 23, 2018 Brooks Marmon africa, Anticolonialism, black press, Pan-Africanism, Zimbabwe

In 1965, the racially-driven political crisis in the British self-governing colony of Southern Rhodesia (colonial Zimbabwe) entered a dramatic new

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Black on Both Sides: A New Book on the Racial History of Trans Identity

May 14, 2018May 15, 2018 Dan Berger black feminism, Gender, sexuality

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

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