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Beyond the ‘Great Men’ Canon of Black Intellectual History

June 11, 2019June 9, 2019 La TaSha Levy #AAIHSRoundtable, #RethinkingAAIH, black intellectual history, black internationalism, Black political thought, black politics, Black women, education, Politics, race

*This post is part of our online forum titled “What is African American Intellectual History?“ African American intellectual history is

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Black Food Geographies: A New Book on Food Politics in Washington, D.C.

June 7, 2019May 25, 2019 J. T. Roane Activism, black politics, Black women, food, geography, Resistance, Washington DC

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

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Situating Standpoint Magazine: Conservative Journalism and Eugenic Ideology

June 7, 2019June 7, 2019 Alexandra Fair African Diaspora, eugenics, publishing, race, Racial Violence, racism, white supremacy

David J. Garrow’s recent article “The Troubling Legacy of Martin Luther King” ignited a firestorm of debate. After its May 30th publication in Standpoint,

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Overseer Violence on Eighteenth Century Plantations

June 5, 2019May 24, 2019 Robert D. Bland book review, Racial Violence, slavery, South

For scholars of eighteenth-century North American slavery, the rise of the plantation-complex grounds many of the field’s central questions. When

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Occupied Territory: A New Book about Policing and Black Chicago

June 5, 2019June 3, 2019 J. T. Roane Chicago, police brutality, police violence, prisons, repression, Resistance

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

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