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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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Frederick Douglass and Fugitivity

November 26, 2018December 3, 2018 Manisha Sinha Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass Forum, fugitivity, Resistance, slavery

*This post is part of our online forum on the life of Frederick Douglass. If I had to choose a single

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Frederick Douglass’s Radical Imagination

November 26, 2018November 28, 2018 Christopher Bonner Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass Forum, freedom, Resistance

*This post is part of our online forum on the life of Frederick Douglass. Often on Sunday afternoons, a teenage Frederick Douglass

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‘The Dawn of Detroit’: An Interview with Historian Tiya Miles

September 20, 2018September 25, 2018 Alaina E. Roberts African Diaspora, Canada, Detroit, race, slave trade

In today’s post, Alaina E. Roberts, the Dietrich Diversity Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History at the University of

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