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The Absence of Political Economy in African Diaspora Studies

March 20, 2018March 26, 2018 Charisse Burden-Stelly African Diaspora, Black Studies, education, education reform, Pan-Africanism

The Black Studies movement, inaugurated in the late 1960s by student- and community-based demands for a “more relevant education,” represented

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Black Perspectives: Our Top 15 Blog Posts in 2017

December 29, 2017January 2, 2018 AAIHS Editors

In 2017, Black Perspectives, the blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), continued to grow as a prominent voice within

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#BlackOctober Reading List: The Russian Revolution and the African Diaspora

November 4, 2017November 8, 2017 Jennifer Wilson and Jennifer Suchland Black October, Russia, Russian Revolution

The Black October reading list is an invitation to think about the centennial of the Russian Revolution through the rich

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The Still Rejected Strain; or How Black Thought is Enough

October 25, 2017October 27, 2017 Josh Myers black radical tradition, Black radicalism, Harold Cruse

*This post is part of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History’s recent roundtable on Harold Cruse’s The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual (1967). Click here to

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Transformative Anti-Racist Politics at the University of Michigan

October 11, 2017October 14, 2017 Austin McCoy #BlackLivesMatter, black protest, student activism

What happens when college and university administrators are unable to prevent white supremacists from spreading racist propaganda on their campuses?

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