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Revolution and Counter-Revolution: Toward a New Interpretive Framework

June 10, 2017June 13, 2017 Gerald Horne #Horne, imperialism, Racial Capitalism

This post is part of our online roundtable on Gerald Horne’s Black Radical History Above all, I thank the editors

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Interrogating the Master Narrative of “My Family’s Slave”

June 2, 2017June 6, 2017 Premilla Nadasen Activism, racism, Resistance, slavery

Alex Tizon’s widely acclaimed article in The Atlantic about his family’s horrific abuse and exploitation of a domestic worker has

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Beyond Respectability: A New Book on Black Female Public Intellectuals

May 30, 2017June 2, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi black intellectual history, Black women, Gender, review of black women's intellectual history

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

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Centering and Sustaining Us through Education

May 19, 2017May 22, 2017 Guest Poster education, pedagogy

by Django Paris & H. Samy Alim    Across the centuries, countless philosophers and teachers—and legions of students—have asked that

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Black Power, Education, and the History of the Peoples College

May 17, 2017May 20, 2017 Richard D. Benson II Activism, black intellectual history, Black Power, education

Over the past several years, scholars such as Ibram X. Kendi, Martha Biondi, Russell Rickford, and others have produced scholarship

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