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The Invisible Threads of Gender, Race, and Slavery

April 13, 2017June 22, 2017 Sasha Turner Black women, Gender, slave trade, slavery

On March 24, 2017 the United Nations commemorated its ten-year anniversary for the International Day of Remembrance honoring the Victims

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New President, Same Old Deal: The Parallels Between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Donald J. Trump

April 3, 2017April 6, 2017 Ameer Hasan Loggins Donald Trump, presidents, racism, Trumpism

An evaluation of the first 100 days of the new President of the United States has become a tradition of

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Social Death and Insurgent Discourses in Jordan Peele’s “Get Out”

March 27, 2017March 31, 2017 J. T. Roane Black film, film, Racial Violence, racism

*Editor’s Note: This essay contains spoilers* As Jordan Peele’s blockbuster hit Get Out progresses, Chris Washington (Daniel Kaluuya) discovers that

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Radicalizing the Resistance in the Age of Trump

March 14, 2017March 17, 2017 Russell Rickford democracy, Donald Trump, Immigration, Politics, Resistance, Trumpism

Who knew an act of civic engagement could produce such exhilaration and ambivalence? A few weeks ago I attended a

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An Unspeakable Toll: Relentless Violence and the Middle Passage

March 9, 2017March 13, 2017 Joshua Rothman #SlaveryAtSea, slave trade

This post is part of our online roundtable on Sowande’ Mustakeem’s Slavery at Sea In 1790, Thomas Trotter testified to

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