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Audre Lorde standing in front of board reading "Women are powerful and dangerous." Source: The Guardian.

On the Life and Work of Audre Lorde

February 19, 2021February 22, 2021 Keelyn Bradley #AudreLorde, black intellectual history, Black political thought, Black Queers, Black Studies, Gender, race, racism, white supremacy

*This post is part of our online forum on the Life and Work of Audre Lorde The spectacle of a dying

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African American Print Culture: An Interview with Laura Helton

February 4, 2021January 30, 2021 Robert Greene II archives, black intellectual history, Black women, Gender, library

This is an interview with Robert Greene II, the lead associate editor of Black Perspectives, and Laura Helton, whose article

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The Interior Lives of Black Youth

January 29, 2021January 30, 2021 Joshua L. Crutchfield Activism, black intellectual history, Black women, Gender, Jim Crow, Resistance

In Coming of Age in Jim Crow DC: Navigating the Politics of Everyday Life, Paula C. Austin, Assistant Professor of History

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The Black Republic: An Author’s Response

December 11, 2020December 10, 2020 Brandon Byrd #TheBlackRepublic, black intellectual history, black internationalism, Haiti

The most familiar story about nineteenth-century African Americans and the Haitian Revolution is a romanticized account of how the revolution

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The Meaning and Significance of Haiti in African American Studies

December 8, 2020January 11, 2021 Chelsea Stieber #TheBlackRepublic, African Diaspora, black intellectual history, Caribbean, Haiti, white supremacy

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Brandon R. Byrd’s The Black Republic. Of the “idea of Haiti,” historian

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