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Consumerism and Curation: Sarah Tate’s Resistance

June 25, 2021June 25, 2021 Katie Knowles Activism, black intellectual history, black protest, Black women, capitalism, Gender

On June 19, 1865, Sarah Tate was living about 160 miles west of Galveston, Texas, on the homestead of James

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Online Roundtable: Quito Swan’s ‘Pauulu’s Diaspora’

June 21, 2021June 26, 2021 AAIHS Editors #AAIHSRoundtable, #QuitoSwan, black intellectual history, black internationalism, black politics, Black radicalism, environmental justice

June 28th-July 2nd, 2021 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is collaborating with the Journal of

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Gen Z Hip Hop, Rod Wave, and Black Masculinity

June 17, 2021June 17, 2021 Mickell Carter Activism, art, Gender, music, Resistance

Early this year, rapper Rod Wave’s album, Soul Fly, entered the music scene with a sharp analysis of contemporary Black manhood.

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Black Wall Street, Collective Memory, and Reparations

June 4, 2021June 2, 2021 Suzanne E. Smith Activism, art, education, white supremacy

Of all the Black-owned businesses that thrived on “Black Wall Street,” it is the Dreamland Theatre that stands as the

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The Afterlives of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre

June 3, 2021June 2, 2021 Rose M. Brewer Activism, Black Power, education, Racial Violence, Resistance

What is it about May and Black death?  What is it about Memorial Day when it comes to white racial terrorism

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