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Remembering Phillis Wheatley

June 26, 2016June 25, 2016 Chernoh Sesay Jr. black intellectual history, Black women, Phillis Wheatley

In my last post, I commented on a specific newspaper piece from the May 18, 1827 edition of Freedom’s Journal,

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Making Jokes and History in An Octoroon

June 25, 2016June 24, 2016 Christopher Bonner

Last weekend I saw a performance of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins‘ play An Octoroon, which is a reimagining of Dion Boucicault’s The

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Public Letter to the Chronicle : Response to Trump Syllabus 1.0

June 21, 2016July 30, 2016 Guest Poster

Over the past year, scholars have curated a number of public syllabi and reading lists, most crowdsourced through social media,

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Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome is a Racist Idea

June 21, 2016June 21, 2016 Ibram X. Kendi trauma

For a generation of open-minded Americans, the original Roots miniseries in 1977 uprooted fields of racist ideas of backward Africa,

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Orlando and the American Pathologies of Masculinity and Militarism

June 20, 2016June 15, 2016 Russell Rickford masculinity, violence

It is virtually forbidden–as an unpatriotic act–that the American boy evolve into the complexity of manhood. –James Baldwin The dominant

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