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Intersectional Health Equity in Brazil: An Interview with Kia Lilly Caldwell

October 2, 2017October 5, 2017 Erica Williams Afro-Brazilians, Brazil, health, intersectionality, South America

In today’s post, Erica L. Williams, an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Spelman College, interviews Kia Lilly Caldwell about her new

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Charles Burnett and the Significance of Black Independent Cinema

October 2, 2017October 4, 2017 Justin Gomer Black film, film, poverty, television, white supremacy

When Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight won the best picture Oscar earlier this year, I shared my optimism on this blog about the

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Online Forum: The Russian Revolution and the African Diaspora

October 1, 2017October 5, 2017 AAIHS Editors Black October, Russia, Russian Revolution

Black Perspectives, the blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum on Black October: The Russian Revolution

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The Black Intellectual Tradition and Hip Hop

September 20, 2017September 22, 2017 Matthew Teutsch black intellectual history, music, slavery

Pictured in profile on the cover The Narrative (2016), hip hop artist Sho Baraka calls upon listeners to draw connections between

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Margaret Garner and the Complexities of Slavery and Gender

September 19, 2017September 23, 2017 Jessica Parr Ohio, slavery

“Why?” So begins Nikki Taylor’s smart and probing microhistory of enslaved woman Margaret Garner’s murder of her child. But Taylor’s

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