Search Results for: racism

Black Queer Southern Women: A New Book in Oral History

January 25, 2019January 29, 2019 J. T. Roane Black women, LGBT, oral history, sexuality

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

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‘White Rebels in Black’: An Interview with Priscilla Layne

January 24, 2019January 29, 2019 Kira Thurman African Diaspora, Black Europe, Germany, race, racism, white supremacy

In today’s post, Kira Thurman, Assistant Professor of History and Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan, interviews Priscilla

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The Radical Hope of Octavia Butler

January 22, 2019January 29, 2019 Lavelle Porter Black women, literature, Racial Violence

When I assigned Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower for my Introduction to Fiction classes this fall, I was fearful

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Race and Service in the Pacific During World War II

January 16, 2019January 29, 2019 Karen Cook Bell Activism, book review, military, Pacific War

Historian John Dower has noted that “apart from the genocide of the Jews, racism remains one of the great neglected

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The Radical Tradition of Student Protest

January 15, 2019January 29, 2019 Mike Jirik black radical tradition, Haiti, Haitian Revolution, student activism

On the night of August 20, 2018, student protesters at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill toppled a

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