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Race, Necropower, and Natural Disasters

September 23, 2017September 27, 2017 Dan Royles carceral state, environment, race

In the last month, Hurricanes Harvey and Irma devastated Texas and Florida, killing scores of people and leaving many more

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Bringing Archives of Death and Life into the Classroom

September 21, 2017September 23, 2017 James Padilioni Jr black intellectual history, teaching

This fall I am teaching African American History Since 1863, starting with the event of Emancipation as a legal-juridical happening

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The Hip Hop Pedagogy and Innovative Prose of Rakim Allah

September 15, 2017September 18, 2017 Richard D. Benson II hip hop, music

It was the summer of 1986 in Chicago, and my eleven-year-old self was engaged in an intense debate with my

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Ethel Mae Matthews and the Emmaus House in Atlanta

September 11, 2017September 15, 2017 Tom Adam Davies Activism, Black Power, Black women, Deep South, housing

Fifty years ago, Emmaus House opened its doors for the first time. Located in Peoplestown, a deprived neighborhood southeast of

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The Fallacy of 1619: Rethinking the History of Africans in Early America

September 4, 2017September 6, 2017 Michael Guasco colonial America, colonialism, slave trade, slavery

In 1619, “20. and odd Negroes” arrived off the coast of Virginia, where they were “bought for victualle” by labor-hungry

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