Search Results for: meaning of freedom

Bringing Archives of Death and Life into the Classroom

September 21, 2017September 23, 2017 James Padilioni Jr black intellectual history, teaching

This fall I am teaching African American History Since 1863, starting with the event of Emancipation as a legal-juridical happening

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Margaret Garner and the Complexities of Slavery and Gender

September 19, 2017September 23, 2017 Jessica Parr Ohio, slavery

“Why?” So begins Nikki Taylor’s smart and probing microhistory of enslaved woman Margaret Garner’s murder of her child. But Taylor’s

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Echoes of the 1960s: SNCC and White Liberal Participation in Anti-Racist Movements

September 12, 2017September 14, 2017 Ashley Farmer Activism, black politics, Black Power, black radical tradition, Civil Rights Movement

This first summer under the Trump regime resembles the long red-hot summers of the past. It has been filled with

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Blackness, Pessimism, and the Human

September 5, 2017September 8, 2017 Joseph Winters Afro-pessimism, humanism, race, Racial Violence, violence

There is a specter haunting black studies, black freedom struggles, humanism, and the politics of recognition. This recalcitrant specter currently

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Online Roundtable: Judith Weisenfeld’s New World A-Coming

September 3, 2017September 25, 2017 AAIHS Editors #NewWorld

September 25-30, 2017 Black Perspectives, the blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is collaborating with the Journal of Africana Religions* to

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