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The Impact of Student Loans on Black Wealth

December 1, 2017December 5, 2017 Devin Fergus black politics, capitalism, housing, Race and Economic History

This post is part of our online forum on Race, Property, and Economic History. This year marks the 10th anniversary of the largest financial

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The Cuban Revolution and the Myth of Racial Inclusivity

November 10, 2017November 13, 2017 Nancy Mirabal #AAIHSRoundtable, #AntiracismInCuba, Activism, Caribbean

This post is part of our online roundtable on Devyn Spence Benson’s Antiracism in Cuba. Devyn Spence Benson’s Antiracism in Cuba: The Unfinished

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Harold Cruse’s Ruthless Criticism

October 20, 2017October 21, 2017 Andrew Hartman black intellectual history, black nationalism, Black radicalism, Harold Cruse

*This post is part of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History’s recent roundtable on Harold Cruse’s The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual (1967). Click here to

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Blackness, Pessimism, and the Human

September 5, 2017September 8, 2017 Joseph Winters Afro-pessimism, humanism, race, Racial Violence, violence

There is a specter haunting black studies, black freedom struggles, humanism, and the politics of recognition. This recalcitrant specter currently

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A View From Within: Inside the Black Panther Party

July 14, 2017July 17, 2017 Quito J. Swan #AAIHSRoundtable, #RevolutionHasCome, Activism, black lives matter, Black Panther Party, Black Panthers, Black Power

This post is part of our online roundtable on Robyn Spencer’s The Revolution Has Come Robyn Spencer’s The Revolution Has

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