“Swinging While I’m Singing”: Spike Lee, Public Enemy, and the Message in the Music
“1989, a number, another summer, sound of the funky drummer” —Public Enemy, “Fight the Power” The scene may be the
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Resistance
Staging Habla de Negros: A New Book on Radical Black Performance in Early Modern Spain
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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Towards an Antifascist Pedagogy
On February 19th, 2019 an interracial group of socialists gathered at a local coffee shop in rural Alabama. The coffee
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Place in the African American Intellectual Tradition
*This post is part of our online forum titled “What is African American Intellectual History?“ In thinking about the contours
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Black Food Geographies: A New Book on Food Politics in Washington, D.C.
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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