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The Roots of Antiblackness in the US and Brazil

March 28, 2019August 12, 2022 Kwame Holmes black feminism, black politics, black protest, Brazil, police brutality, police violence, Politics, Racial Violence, racism

At its core The Denial of Antiblackness: Multiracial Redemption & Black Suffering by João Vargas proposes an intriguing methodological question: Is

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Therese Patricia Okoumou: Black Women’s Bodies and Public Protest

March 18, 2019March 31, 2019 Celeste Henery Activism, black protest, carceral state, police violence, Racial Violence

Tomorrow, March 19, Therese Patricia Okoumou will be sentenced for her protest climb of the Statue of Liberty this past

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The National Character of Black Oppression

March 6, 2019March 9, 2019 Charisse Burden-Stelly black nationalism, black politics, capitalism, Politics, race, racism

For the first two-thirds of the twentieth century, a small cadre of activist intellectuals sought to understand African American exploitation

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Working-Class Politics and the Carceral State

February 6, 2019March 31, 2019 Keelyn Bradley capitalism, Racial Violence, racism, white supremacy

In the United States, whiteness as metaphysical absence is a prerequisite for economic class neutralization, allowing the aesthetic malleability and

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Happy New Year from Black Perspectives

January 1, 2019January 29, 2019 AAIHS Editors

The editing team of Black Perspectives wishes you all a very happy new year! Thank you for supporting us in 2018! We

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