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Flavors of Florida: Zora Neale Hurston’s Black Folk Ecologies

July 1, 2019June 21, 2019 James Padilioni Jr African Diaspora, Black Ecologies, black intellectual history, Black women, Caribbean, ethnography, Jim Crow, Zora Neale Hurston

While Zora Neale Hurston’s innovative ethnographic methodologies — including first-hand accounts of her own hoodoo/voodoo initiations — are celebrated by white

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On The International Book Fair of Radical Black and Third World Books

June 26, 2019June 16, 2019 Tiffany Florvil Activism, African Diaspora, Black Europe, Black German, book

The International Book Fair of Radical Black and Third World Books was first held in London, England in 1982, and

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“Swinging While I’m Singing”: Spike Lee, Public Enemy, and the Message in the Music

June 24, 2019June 22, 2019 Mark Anthony Neal Black film, black politics, film series, hip hop, music, police brutality, race, Resistance, women in film

“1989, a number, another summer, sound of the funky drummer” —Public Enemy, “Fight the Power” The scene may be the

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On Education and African American Intellectual History

June 14, 2019June 12, 2019 Derrick P. Alridge #AAIHSRoundtable, #RethinkingAAIH, Activism, black intellectual history, black politics, Black women, education, education reform, Historiography, race

*This post is part of our online forum titled “What is African American Intellectual History?“ As a scholar in African

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Place in the African American Intellectual Tradition

June 12, 2019June 9, 2019 Celeste Day Moore #AAIHSRoundtable, #RethinkingAAIH, black intellectual history, Chicago, education, geography, race, racism, Resistance, urban history

*This post is part of our online forum titled “What is African American Intellectual History?“ In thinking about the contours

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