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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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Black Creativity and Imagination at the End of the World

December 11, 2018December 24, 2018 J. T. Roane literature, poetry

Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower and Edwidge Danticat’s The Farming of Bones are set in starkly different times and

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W. E. B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits: A New Book on Visualizing Black America

December 10, 2018December 24, 2018 Phillip Luke Sinitiere archives, black intellectual history, civil rights, W.E.B. Du Bois

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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Race and the Remaking of Trans History: An Author’s Response

December 7, 2018December 10, 2018 C. Riley Snorton #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackonBothSides, archives, Gender, race

*This post is part of our online roundtable on C. Riley Snorton’s Black on Both Sides.  Part I A few weeks ago, on Sunday,

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