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Anne Moody’s Coming of Age in Mississippi: Seeing Anne’s Struggles as Our Own

July 10, 2020July 5, 2020 Adele Norris black protest, blackness, Civil Rights Movement, youth

It’s been over 50 years since Anne Moody published Coming of Age in Mississippi in 1968. The autobiography chronicles Anne’s life

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Free the Land– A New Book About the Republic of New Afrika

July 3, 2020June 28, 2020 AAIHS Editors Black Power, Black radicalism, Resistance

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

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The Role of Black Women in the Making of a White Argentine Republic

July 2, 2020June 28, 2020 Christina Proenza Coles African Diaspora, Black women, Latin America, Resistance

“The discovery of personal whiteness among the world’s peoples is a very modern thing,” observed W.E.B. Du Bois, “a nineteenth

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A Black Women’s History of the US: An Interview with Kali Gross and Daina Ramey Berry

June 26, 2020June 26, 2020 J. T. Roane black intellectual history, Black women, Gender, sexuality

Kali Nicole Gross is the Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of History at Rutgers University–New Brunswick. She is also the National Publications

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An Appeal –Bring the Maroon to the Foreground in Black Intellectual History

June 19, 2020June 17, 2020 Yannick Marshall black intellectual history, marronage, race, Racial Violence, racism, Resistance, violence, white supremacy

Within the larger narrative of slave resistance, maroons offered a unique experiment. They created and exposed to whites and blacks

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