A Political Education: A New Book About Black Politics and Education Reform in Chicago
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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Top 10 of 2018 – #9 – The Legacy and Representation of Blacks in Spain
*Editor’s Note: As the year comes to a close, we’re featuring the ten most popular pieces we published on Black Perspectives. This
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The Best Black History Books of 2018
We asked editors and bloggers of Black Perspectives to select the best books published in 2018 on Black History, and
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Literacy, History, and African American Spirituals
In his 1935 interview with Alan Lomax and Zora Neale Hurston, Wallace Quarterman, a ninety-one-year-old formerly enslaved man, shared a
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Black Creativity and Imagination at the End of the World
Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower and Edwidge Danticat’s The Farming of Bones are set in starkly different times and
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