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W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life in American History

September 3, 2020August 28, 2020 Edward Carson African Diaspora, black radical tradition, Black radicalism

In 2018, scholars celebrated the 150th anniversary of the birth of W.E.B. Du Bois via published essays, symposiums, and commemorative

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Speculative Black Theatre History

July 15, 2020July 12, 2020 Soyica Colbert #AAIHSRoundtable, #RadicalBlackTheatre, art, black radical tradition, Black radicalism, Performance, theater

*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with The Journal of Civil and Human Rights on Kate Dossett’s Radical

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“If They Take You In The Morning”: M4BL and the Palestine Justice Movement

July 8, 2020July 5, 2020 Taurean J. Webb black internationalism, black lives matter, black radical tradition, Black radicalism, Palestine, police violence, Resistance

“Eyad was killed and he didn’t even know what his crime was….he was dreaming of becoming a chef’s assistant. He

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Intimate History, Radical Narrative

May 22, 2020June 3, 2020 Saidiya Hartman #WaywardLives, black feminism, black radical tradition, Black radicalism, Black women, Gender, Resistance, W.E.B. Du Bois

*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with the Journal of African American History. Archival documents are scattered

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Cedric J. Robinson: A New Book on Racial Capitalism, Black Internationalism, and Cultures of Resistance

February 21, 2020February 17, 2020 AAIHS Editors black radical tradition, Black radicalism

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

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