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Beyond Today’s Vote: Constructions of Black Identity Then and Now

September 9, 2016September 8, 2016 Chernoh Sesay Jr. Phillis Wheatley

“The political and cultural identities of black people have never been reducible to a discrete and unified list of interests

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“All of Us Had a Taste”: Outlaw Women and Stephanie St. Clair, Madame Queen of Policy

September 7, 2016September 6, 2016 Shannon King archives, Black women, Harlem, New York, research

Today is the third day of our roundtable on LaShawn Harris’s new book, Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black

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What is Afro-Latin America?

September 4, 2016September 3, 2016 Devyn Spence Benson

From Mexico to Brazil and beyond, Africans and people of African descent have fought in wars of independence, forged mixed

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Reconsidering Jesse Jackson: The Caricature, The Person, The Politician-Part 2

September 2, 2016September 3, 2016 Guest Poster Jesse Jackson, New Democrats, Rainbow Coalition

This post, written by Tim Lacy, was originally published on the Society for U.S. Intellectual History’s blog and is reprinted here with permission.

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The Surprising Role of Race in the History of Gubernatorial Impeachment

August 31, 2016August 31, 2016 Patrick Rael reconstruction

Once again, Maine Governor Paul LePage is in trouble, and race is at the heart of the matter.  The Governor’s

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