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The Historical Erasure of Violence Against Black Women

January 24, 2018January 30, 2018 Denise Lynn black feminism, black protest, Black women, Communism, NAACP, racism, sexual violence, South, white supremacy

The #MeToo movement and the recent attention to Recy Taylor’s 1944 rape has drawn much needed attention to the consistent

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2017 in Review: Roundtables on Black Perspectives

December 27, 2017January 2, 2018 AAIHS Editors

In 2017, Black Perspectives, the blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), hosted ten online roundtables and forums, featuring leading scholars

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Black Radicalism and Voices of Resistance

December 16, 2017December 21, 2017 Dan Berger Angela Davis, mass incarceration, Political Prisoners, prisons

First published at the end of 1971, Angela Davis’ If They Come in the Morning is the kind of urgent tract

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The Communist Party’s Role in the British Anti-Racist Movement

December 4, 2017December 8, 2017 Evan Smith Activism, Blacks in Britain, capitalism, Communism

My new book British Communism and the Politics of Race uncovers the prominent anti-racist role that the Communist Party of

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A Discourse on Race and Inequality in the United States

November 30, 2017December 4, 2017 Kasturi "Rumu" DasGupta economic justice, prisons, Race and Economic History, segregation, slavery

This post is part of our online forum on Race, Property, and Economic History. The U.S. Census Bureau reported in early September (2017) that

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