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The Love Between Langston Hughes and Gwendolyn Brooks

February 13, 2017February 17, 2017 Betsy Schlabach Chicago

In 1986, African American poet Gwendolyn Brooks wrote of her life-long friend Langston Hughes: “‘WHAT was Langston Hughes? An overwhelmer.

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History As A Communal Act: The History of Black History Month

February 1, 2017January 30, 2018 Stephen G. Hall black intellectual history

African Americans have always imagined and constructed history as a communal act. At the inception of the African American historical

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Contesting State Violence in and Beyond the Archive

January 23, 2017February 18, 2017 Dan Berger #BloodintheWater, archives, carceral state, mass incarceration

This is the second day of our roundtable on Heather Ann Thompson’s book, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison

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Transcending Time: Centering Literature at Festac 77

January 17, 2017May 30, 2017 Suzanne Enzerink black intellectual history, black internationalism, Pan-Africanism, West Africa

In January 1977, a month-long celebration of African diasporic culture brought participants from fifty-five countries to Lagos, Nigeria, including several

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The Racial Politics of the Urban Saçi Graffiti Series in São Paulo, Brazil

January 4, 2017January 6, 2017 Reighan Gillam #comicsandrace, Brazil

This guest post is part of our new blog series on Comics, Race, and Society, edited by Julian Chambliss and

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