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The National Character of Black Oppression

March 6, 2019March 9, 2019 Charisse Burden-Stelly black nationalism, black politics, capitalism, Politics, race, racism

For the first two-thirds of the twentieth century, a small cadre of activist intellectuals sought to understand African American exploitation

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Top 10 of 2018 – #1 – Prison Abolition Syllabus 2.0

December 28, 2018January 29, 2019 Guest Poster #TopTen

*Editor’s Note: As the year comes to a close, we’re featuring the ten most popular pieces we published on Black Perspectives. This

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Literacy, History, and African American Spirituals

December 13, 2018December 24, 2018 Karen Cook Bell #BlackLivesMatter, race, religion, Resistance, slavery

In his 1935 interview with Alan Lomax and Zora Neale Hurston, Wallace Quarterman, a ninety-one-year-old formerly enslaved man, shared a

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Reclaiming the Black Past: A New Book on the Use and Misuse of African American History

December 12, 2018December 24, 2018 Keisha N. Blain black intellectual history, Historical Memory

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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More Than Just Words: Taking Antiracism Seriously

December 10, 2018December 24, 2018 Sasha Turner black intellectual history, race, racism, teaching

From bumper stickers and social media hashtags and memes, to think tanks and think pieces, the concept ‘antiracist’ has saturated

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