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The Radical Democracy of the Movement for Black Lives

June 9, 2020June 9, 2020 Peniel Joseph

This week we’re revisiting selections from our 2016 series ‘With Love and Respect: #ScholarsRespond to A Vision for Black Lives,’

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“We’ll Hold The Police Accountable!”: The Useful Meaninglessnesses of Liberal-speak

April 27, 2020April 26, 2020 Yannick Marshall police brutality, police violence, policing, race, Racial Violence, racism

It has been two years since Stephon Clark was killed in his grandmother’s backyard. Two years since Rev. Al Sharpton

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Black Bourgeois: A New Book about the Dilemma of Black Middle-Class Embodiment in the Post-Civil Rights Era

April 3, 2020April 1, 2020 AAIHS Editors class, embodiment, literature, Performance

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

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(In)Articulate while Black

April 2, 2020March 29, 2020 Yannick Marshall blackness, literacy, race, racism

I imagine that there are people who believe that Black people are too sensitive. When Blacks are called “well-spoken,” or

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An Education in Politics

February 27, 2020February 23, 2020 Noliwe Rooks #AAIHSRoundtable, #APoliticalEducation, Activism, Black women, Chicago, education, education reform, student activism

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Elizabeth Todd-Breland’s A Political Education: Black Politics and Education Reform in Chicago Since

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