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Top 10 of 2018 – #9 – The Legacy and Representation of Blacks in Spain

December 18, 2018December 24, 2018 Nicholas R. Jones #TopTen

*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

December 14, 2018December 24, 2018 AAIHS Editors

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

December 13, 2018December 24, 2018 Karen Cook Bell #BlackLivesMatter, race, religion, Resistance, slavery

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

December 11, 2018December 24, 2018 J. T. Roane literature, poetry

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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The Erasure of Black and Trans Lives

December 6, 2018December 10, 2018 Julio Capó, Jr. #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackonBothSides, archives, black lives matter, Gender, Racial Violence

*This post is part of our online roundtable on C. Riley Snorton’s Black on Both Sides. The author discusses the fifth and final chapter:

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