Marxism and Black Liberation: The Work of Raya Dunayevskaya
Marxism, which played a role in Black Liberation ideas in the decades immediately after the Russian Revolution, and again during
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black intellectual history
Consumerism and Curation: Sarah Tate’s Resistance
On June 19, 1865, Sarah Tate was living about 160 miles west of Galveston, Texas, on the homestead of James
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Ralph Ellison’s Juneteenth and Black Literary History
In 1965, Ralph Ellison published a short story called “Juneteenth.” It was a central excerpt of his long-awaited novel-in-progress. Ellison
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Online Roundtable: Quito Swan’s ‘Pauulu’s Diaspora’
June 28th-July 2nd, 2021 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is collaborating with the Journal of
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On the Mythologizing of United States History
On January 18th of this year, the same day the nation celebrated Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the outgoing Trump
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