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1968: Soul Music and the Year of Black Power

December 31, 2018January 29, 2019 Mark Anthony Neal Black Power, black protest, culture, music

James Brown’s iconic song “Say It Loud – I’m Black and I’m Proud” was released in August 1968, seemingly a

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Black Feminism: The Beginning and End of a World

December 3, 2018December 7, 2018 L.H. Stallings #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackonBothSides, black feminism, Black radicalism, Gender, race, sexuality

*This post is part of our online roundtable on C. Riley Snorton’s Black on Both Sides. For this roundtable, I have been

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Online Roundtable: ‘Black on Both Sides’: A Racial History of Trans Identity 

November 19, 2018December 10, 2018 AAIHS Editors #BlackonBothSides, Gender, race, trans identity

December 3-7, 2018 Black Perspectives,the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online roundtable on C. Riley

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“They’re Chatterboxes with their Feet”: Black Dances in Early Modern Spain

November 12, 2018November 19, 2018 Nicholas R. Jones African Diaspora, black internationalism, Caribbean, Cuba, music, Resistance

In his Premática del Tiempo (1628; 1648), Francisco de Quevedo berates Black African slave culture flourishing on Spanish soil. What

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Statues, Symbolism, and White Supremacy

October 5, 2018October 8, 2018 Devyn Spence Benson African Diaspora, black protest, Black radicalism, Caribbean, Cuba, Resistance, white supremacy

Last month, protesters at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, the state’s flagship campus, surprised the nation by toppling the

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