Search Results for: slavery

Black Love Post-Death, Part II

September 12, 2016September 11, 2016 Jessica Marie Johnson black lives matter, Black Studies

Last year, right around this time, I wrote this for Focus: The Princeton Department of African and African American Studies Medium

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This Vast Southern Empire: A New Book on Slaveholders and U.S. Foreign Policy

September 12, 2016January 1, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi Deep South, empire, slavery

This post is part of a new and recurring blog series I am editing, which announces the release of selected new

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Men without Pants: Masculinity and the Enslaved

September 11, 2016September 11, 2016 Keri Leigh Merritt Deep South, masculinity

Although nearly fifty-seven years have passed since Stanley Elkins’ provocative thesis on the effects of slavery rocked the historical community,

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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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