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Black Reconstruction in the Twenty-First Century

October 24, 2023October 18, 2023 Lacey P. Hunter 19th Century, American Civil War, American Democracy, citizenship, Civil Rights Movement, Voting Rights

  Peniel E. Joseph, The Third Reconstruction: America’s Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century. New York: Basic Books,

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Reckoning with Whiteness in Brazil

October 18, 2023October 16, 2023 Stephanie Reist #AAIHSRoundtable, #raceandlatinamerica, Brazil, Latin America

This post is part of our forum on “Race and Latin America.” In a pivotal scene in Kleber Mendonca Filho’s

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Posthumous Authority: Revisiting Carolina Maria de Jesus

October 17, 2023October 16, 2023 Cassie Osei #raceandlatinamerica, African Diaspora, Black women, Gender, race

This post is part of our forum on “Race and Latin America” In the bustling streets of Paris, the French

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The Life and Activism of Rosa Parks: A CBFS Interview

October 5, 2023September 22, 2023 Lucien Baskin Black Women's History, CBFS, Civil Rights Movement, interview, Rosa Parks

Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black

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Arturo Schomburg, Black Studies, and Social Change

September 28, 2023September 15, 2023 DJ Polite Arturo Schomburg, Black History, Black Studies, John Henrik Clarke

Around 1930, a fifteen-year-old John Henrik Clarke travelled to New York City, New York, anxious to meet Arturo Schomburg at

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