Black Realities and White Statues: The Fall of Confederate Monuments
As a young student, of perhaps fifteen years old, I was the only brown face in a mostly white honors
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Introducing a New Series on Black Ecologies
Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is launching a new interdisciplinary series titled #BlackEcologies beginning with today’s
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Marcus, Martin, and Minneapolis: A Statement from the University of the West Indies
Martin Luther King Jr, when he felt he could not breathe came to Jamaica. When the threats to his life
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Contesting State Violence in and Beyond the Archive
This week we’re revisiting Heather Ann Thompson’s Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy (Pantheon Books, 2016). Today
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Intimate Historical Practice
*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with the Journal of African American History. Saidiya Hartman has stacked
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