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David Walker and the Problem of American Consensus

February 7, 2017April 8, 2017 Chernoh Sesay Jr. black politics, black protest, Black radicalism, civil rights, emancipation, racism, slavery

There are many different ways to teach the historical development of African American political history. One way is in the

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History As A Communal Act: The History of Black History Month

February 1, 2017January 30, 2018 Stephen G. Hall black intellectual history

African Americans have always imagined and constructed history as a communal act. At the inception of the African American historical

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Power to the People: Attica and Radical Reconstruction

January 26, 2017January 28, 2017 Russell Rickford #BloodintheWater, carceral state, mass incarceration, police violence

This is the fifth day of our roundtable on Heather Ann Thompson’s book, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison

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Contesting State Violence in and Beyond the Archive

January 23, 2017February 18, 2017 Dan Berger #BloodintheWater, archives, carceral state, mass incarceration

This is the second day of our roundtable on Heather Ann Thompson’s book, Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison

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Freedom as Marronage as Anti-capitalism

December 8, 2016January 21, 2017 Patrick Nichols Jamaica, marronage

On December 23, 1739, Captain Quao of the Windward Maroons penned an “X” and swore a blood oath to formally

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