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Unilever’s Ads and the History of Sexual Abuse Under Slavery

September 19, 2019September 19, 2019 Thomas A. Foster art, Gender, race, Racial Violence, racism, sexuality, slavery

In a typical US advertisement for Magnum ice cream, a young, attractive white woman devours an ice-cream treat coated in chocolate. The

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Against Multiracial Authoritarianism

July 15, 2019July 15, 2019 Dan Berger black politics, black protest, civil rights, nation, Politics, race, white supremacy

Concluding her stunning essay on the racist and sexist representations of Anita Hill’s testimony against Clarence Thomas as he alighted

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“Swinging While I’m Singing”: Spike Lee, Public Enemy, and the Message in the Music

June 24, 2019June 22, 2019 Mark Anthony Neal Black film, black politics, film series, hip hop, music, police brutality, race, Resistance, women in film

“1989, a number, another summer, sound of the funky drummer” —Public Enemy, “Fight the Power” The scene may be the

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Beyond the ‘Great Men’ Canon of Black Intellectual History

June 11, 2019June 9, 2019 La TaSha Levy #AAIHSRoundtable, #RethinkingAAIH, black intellectual history, black internationalism, Black political thought, black politics, Black women, education, Politics, race

*This post is part of our online forum titled “What is African American Intellectual History?“ African American intellectual history is

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White Male Privilege in the US Legal System

March 4, 2019March 9, 2019 Stephane Andrade black politics, black protest, Donald Trump, mass incarceration, police brutality, Politics, prisons, race, racism

On February 21, Roger Stone, one of Donald Trump’s most trusted confidants of forty years, testified in front of U.S.

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