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Black Panther, White Supremacy, and Double Consciousness

March 17, 2018March 21, 2018 Michael D. Kennedy #BlackPanther, #comicsandrace, W.E.B. Du Bois, white supremacy

*This post is part of our new blog series on The World of the Black Panther. This series, edited by Julian Chambliss and Walter

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In the Shadows of Slavery’s Capitalism

March 5, 2018March 11, 2018 Calvin Schermerhorn #MasterlessMen, capitalism, Deep South, Jim Crow, landownership, Marxism, Politics, Racial Capitalism, slavery, South

*This post is part of our roundtable on Keri Leigh Merritt’s Masterless Men. Keri Leigh Merritt’s Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in

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The Anti-Black City: A New Book on Black Urban Life in Brazil

February 12, 2018February 16, 2018 Keisha N. Blain Afro-Brazilians, Brazil, carceral state, police brutality, police violence, policing

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

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Radical Black Peace Activism in the Black Liberation Movement

February 12, 2018February 16, 2018 Charisse Burden-Stelly Anticolonialism, colonialism, imperialism, Soviet Union, Third World Women’s Alliance

On July 4, 1964, the Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM) wrote a letter to the Vietnamese Front of National Liberation congratulating

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Chokwe Lumumba and Black Nationalist Convergence

February 6, 2018February 9, 2018 Dan Berger Activism, black nationalism, black politics, Black Power, black protest, black radical tradition, Black radicalism, Politics

Eight months into his tenure as mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, Chokwe Lumumba passed away on February 25, 2014. The sixty-six-year-old mayor

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