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On the Making and Timely Re-Release of Reluctant Reformers

August 11, 2021August 9, 2021 Say Burgin Activism, black intellectual history, Black Power, usable past

In 1974, Howard University Press published a powerful book documenting how racist ideas and practices incapacitated the US’s most historically

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Policing Black Freedom

August 5, 2021August 5, 2021 Philip V. McHarris #contestedcitizenship, Activism, police violence, Resistance, slavery, W.E.B. Du Bois, white supremacy

*This post is part of our roundtable on “Contested Citizenship,” organized in collaboration with the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study

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Introduction to “Contested Citizenship” Roundtable

August 2, 2021August 3, 2021 Lisa A. Monroe #AAIHSRoundtable, #contestedcitizenship, black lives matter, education

*This post is part of our roundtable on “Contested Citizenship,” organized in collaboration with the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study

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Myles Horton, Highlander, and the Beloved Community

July 29, 2021July 29, 2021 Robert Hunt Ferguson Activism, Civil Rights Movement, education, Jim Crow, Resistance, teaching

On the night of March 29, 2019, an administrative building at the Highlander Research and Education Center in New Market,

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Blackness, Norwegian Identity, and Nationality

July 23, 2021July 22, 2021 Matthew Teutsch black internationalism, black lives matter, music

  Speaking about his research, 2019 Holberg Laureate Paul Gilroy told the committee, “I am particularly engaged by the fate of people

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