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Chocolate Cities: A New Book on the Black Map of American Life

May 26, 2018October 13, 2018 J. T. Roane black protest, blackness, culture, gentrification, Migration, Resistance

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

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The Complexities and Contradictions of the Nation of Islam

May 21, 2018May 26, 2018 Asia Leeds #PromiseofPatriarchy, black nationalism, Black women, Nation of Islam, religion

This post is part of our online roundtable on Ula Taylor’s The Promise of Patriarchy  In The Promise of Patriarchy: Women

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Progressive Movements and the Importance of Failure

May 10, 2018May 13, 2018 Austin McCoy black politics, black protest, civil rights, Resistance

Mary Frances Berry’s History Teaches Us to Resist: How Progressive Movements Have Succeeded in Challenging Times could not have arrived

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Performance Traditions and the “Mardi Gras Indians” in New Orleans

May 5, 2018May 13, 2018 Matthew Teutsch African Diaspora, New Orleans, religion, slave trade

Countless theories surround the history of the “Mardi Gras Indians,” Black organizations in New Orleans that don suits inspired by

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The Role of Water in African American History

May 4, 2018May 13, 2018 Tyler Parry slave trade

Flint, Michigan continues to confront a water crisis that, by all accounts, is a human tragedy. In 2014, the state of

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