The Black Intellectual Traditions That Shaped Frederick Douglass
The United States recently marked 250 years since the adoption of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. For this occasion, a
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Frederick Douglass
Translating Blackness and Transcending Hierarchies of Belonging
This post is part of our online roundtable on Lorgia García Peña’s Translating Blackness. In the penultimate chapter of Translating Blackness:
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Deprovincializing Black Studies and Translating Blackness Beyond Borders
This post is part of our online roundtable on Lorgia García Peña’s Translating Blackness. Lorgia García Peña’s Translating Blackness is a
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Why the United States Needs More Museums about Slavery and Abolition, Not Another About the Civil War
When I first stepped into the foyer of the brand new American Civil War Museum at Historic Tredegar in Richmond, Virginia, I
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Inculcated Forgetfulness at a New England Port
In the fall of 1865, Frederick Douglass riveted a small New England audience for more than two hours. Long forgotten,
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