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The Erasure of People of African Descent in Nazi Germany

April 18, 2017April 21, 2017 Jaimee A. Swift Racial Violence, racism, violence

Recently, Donald Trump’s press secretary Sean Spicer made some peculiar and offensive comments comparing Syrian leader President Bashar al-Assad’s chemical

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Police Brutality and Racism in Germany

April 17, 2017April 20, 2017 Eddie Bruce-Jones African Diaspora, police brutality, police violence

Oury Jalloh, a man in his thirties from Sierra Leone, had applied for asylum in Germany and was living in

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A Dual Emancipation: How Black Freedom Benefited Poor Whites

April 15, 2017April 18, 2017 Keri Leigh Merritt freedom, reconstruction, violence

Recently scholars have come to question “emancipation” as the proper terminology for describing the end of American slavery, preferring instead

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The Invisible Threads of Gender, Race, and Slavery

April 13, 2017June 22, 2017 Sasha Turner Black women, Gender, slave trade, slavery

On March 24, 2017 the United Nations commemorated its ten-year anniversary for the International Day of Remembrance honoring the Victims

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Zadie Smith and Multiculturalism after Brexit

April 11, 2017April 14, 2017 Merve Fejzula culture, Donald Trump, Literary studies, London

Perhaps more than other forms of criticism, outsiders often imagine literary criticism to be free from the vagaries of the

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