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James Baldwin and The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual

October 24, 2017October 25, 2017 Holly Genovese black intellectual history, Harold Cruse, James Baldwin

*This post is part of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History’s recent roundtable on Harold Cruse’s The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual (1967). Click here to

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“Rikers: An American Jail”: A New Film on Mass Incarceration

October 21, 2017October 24, 2017 Michael T. Barry Jr. #FilmFeatures, mass incarceration, New York, prisons

This post is part of my blog series that announces the release of new films in African American History and African Diaspora Studies.

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From Sentiment to Struggle: Combating White Supremacy and Liberal Idealism

October 21, 2017October 24, 2017 Russell Rickford Activism, black protest, Donald Trump, police violence, Resistance, student activism

*This post is the transcript of remarks read at the recent Cornell faculty “kneel-in” against racism. Almost any expression of collectivity can

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Harold Cruse’s Ruthless Criticism

October 20, 2017October 21, 2017 Andrew Hartman black intellectual history, black nationalism, Black radicalism, Harold Cruse

*This post is part of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History’s recent roundtable on Harold Cruse’s The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual (1967). Click here to

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White Supremacy, Nazism, and the Republican Party

October 19, 2017October 21, 2017 Jaimee A. Swift Politics, white supremacy

This past summer, hundreds of white supremacists and neo-Nazis mobilized in Charlottesville, Virginia to prove a point — that they were always here and

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