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The Last Lynching Victim in South Carolina

October 31, 2019October 25, 2019 Brent M. S. Campney book review, Historical Memory, Jim Crow, lynching, Racial Violence, racism, South

In They Stole Him Out of Jail: Willie Earle, South Carolina’s Last Lynching Victim, William B. Gravely, professor emeritus at

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There Is No ‘Relatively Benign’ Version of Settler-Colonialism

October 28, 2019October 19, 2019 Yannick Marshall African Diaspora, Anticolonialism, black politics, black protest, Canada, colonialism, Resistance

I might be made to agree with Erna Paris that using the term “genocide” in reference to Canada’s treatment of indigenous populations

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Salvific Manhood: A New Book about Male Intimacy in James Baldwin’s Novels

October 4, 2019October 4, 2019 J. T. Roane black intellectual history, Black Queer Identity, Gender, James Baldwin, literature, masculinity, sexuality

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

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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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The Ongoing Struggle of the Black Ivy League

September 9, 2019September 10, 2019 Alaina Morgan #AAIHSRoundtable, #UpendingTheIvoryTower, Activism, black intellectual history, Black Power, black protest, education, race, Resistance

*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with the Journal of Civil and Human Rights on Stefan M. Bradley’s Upending

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