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Progressive Movements and the Importance of Failure

May 10, 2018May 13, 2018 Austin McCoy black politics, black protest, civil rights, Resistance

Mary Frances Berry’s History Teaches Us to Resist: How Progressive Movements Have Succeeded in Challenging Times could not have arrived

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James Baldwin and the 1980s: A New Book on the Iconic Writer’s Last Decade

May 2, 2018May 5, 2018 Phillip Luke Sinitiere black intellectual history, Gender

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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Abolitionism and Slave Resistance: An Interview with Manisha Sinha and Sasha Turner

April 20, 2018April 24, 2018 AAIHS Editors Black women, Caribbean, Gender, race, slavery

Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black

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Re-Writing Black Gendered Stories

April 17, 2018April 21, 2018 Celeste Henery black feminism, Black women, blackness, Gender

For some years, I’ve written social histories of Black men on death row. The objective is to provide a social

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“Middle Class” is a White Racial Construct

April 16, 2018April 21, 2018 Christopher Petrella and Ameer Hasan Loggins imperialism, racism, white supremacy

Over the past year a flurry of studies and op-eds highlighting diminished opportunities for economic advancement among people of color

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