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Black Perspectives
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Global Black Thought, the official journal of @AAIHS , is now accepting submissions for a special issue on race and identity in colonial Latin America and the Caribbean. Submissions deadline is 7/1/24. Read more today at @BlkPerspectives : .
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"The Wilmington Massacre of 1898 remains one of the clearest demonstrations of white supremacy and Jim Crow violently erasing the progress and promise of African America," writes @Polite_DPJ today at @BlkPerspectives as a part of our #BlackFamily forum.
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Today on @BlkPerspectives , Ida E. Jones reviews Freeman Marshall’s Ain’t I an Anthropologist: Zora Neale Hurston Beyond the Literary Icon ( @IllinoisPress ): "an insightful read about how academic obscurity can pigeonhole the legacy of Black women thinkers"—
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"McGill University’s institutional history dramatically changes when it accounts for the fact that its founder, James McGill, was an enslaver and trader of enslaved Black and Indigenous people," pens @MelissaNShaw . Read more on Black Canadian Slavery here:
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@BlkPerspectives
Black Perspectives
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Beginning on Mon. May 18 and concluding on Fri. May 22, @AAIHS in collaboration with @JAAHistory will host an online roundtable on Saidiya Hartman’s ( @sojournerlife ) Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval ( @wwnorton )—
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“We see her at flashpoints in her husband’s political and very public career and get glimpses of her private life through family and foe.  Douglass’s biographers mention but never dwell on her. Who was Anna Murray Douglass?,” writes @DainaRameyBerry
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Today on @BlkPerspectives , Joy James ( @DrJoyJames ) offers, “Airbrushing Revolution for the Sake of Abolition”—
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"Black women’s socio-political activism publicly demonstrated a nuanced understanding of the [Civil War's] profound and damaging impact on various Black communities," writes Holly Pinheiro today at @BlkPerspectives .
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Today on @BlkPerspectives , Holly A. Pinheiro, Jr. ( @PhUsct ) offers, “Black Women, the Civil War, and United States Colored Troops”—
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Black Perspectives
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In what has now become a yearly tradition we return to @Y__Barragan ’s wondetful essay— Christmas and Resistance to Slavery in the Americas via @AAIHS
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Today on @BlkPerspectives , Nathan Connolly offers a review of Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s ( @KeeangaYamahtta ) book, Race for Profit ( @uncpressblog ), which could also help us make sense of the inequality we are all bearing witness to with Covid-19 — … @AAIHS
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“The African American Intellectual History Society ( @AAIHS ) stands in solidarity with Dr. Lorgia García Peña, a Black Studies scholar who was recently denied tenure at Harvard University.” — A Response from Black Scholars —
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Black Perspectives
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Also today on @BlkPerspectives , we are pleased to announce the finalist for the fourth annual Pauli Murray Book Prize for the best book in Black intellectual history. Congratulations @bronaldbyrd , @garrett_felber , @jmjafrx , @richardkevans , and @QuitoSwan
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"The connecting tissue between 1662 and 2022 are fundamentally rooted in the history of slavery and reproduction," writes @ProfJLMorgan today at @BlkPerspectives .
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#New on @BlkPerspectives : Colin Kaepernick and the Power of #Black Silent Protest - @LeftSentThis #Protest #Justice
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Black Perspectives
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Today on @BlkPerspectives , we begin our joint online roundtable with @JAAHistory on Saidiya Hartman's #WaywardLives ( @wwnorton ) with a contribution from Sarah Haley ( @sahaley ), "Intimate Historical Practice" -- @aaihs
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Black Perspectives
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In today’s post on @BlkPerspectives , the AAIHS Editors offer a feature interview with Zakiyyah Iman Jackson ( @ZIJackson ) on her new book, Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World ( @NYUpress ) — @AAIHS
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In today’s post, Annette Joseph-Gabriel ( @AnnetteJosephG ) interviews Robin Mitchell ( @ParisNoire ) about her new book, Vénus Noire: Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century France ( @UGAPress ) — @AAIHS
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@BlkPerspectives
Black Perspectives
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Today is W.E.B. Du Bois's birthday! In recognition of the 150th anniversary of his birth, we have been hosting a week-long forum examining his intellectual, social, political & cultural importance. Check out the excellent pieces – #DuBoisForum #BHM
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Black Perspectives
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In today’s post on @BlkPerspectives , we continue our online forum organized by @DrSashaTurner on Eric Williams’, Capitalism and Slavery ( @uncpressblog ), with an essay from Natasha Lightfoot ( @njlightfoot ) — @AAIHS
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"For too long, the Imprisoned Black Radical Intellectual Tradition and the Black Radical Tradition have been estranged" -- writes @agitateorganize in his introduction with @garrett_felber to our online roundtable on the Imprisoned Black Radical Tradition -
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May 29 to June 2, @BlkPerspectives will host a roundtable on @KCorinealdi ’s Panama in Black: Afro-Caribbean World Making in the Twentieth Century ( @DukePress ), featuring pieces from Sharika D. Crawford, @mjohnsonjr11 @BlackCatrachoBK , and Maya Doig-Acuña—
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Black Perspectives
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Beginning March 8th and concluding on March 12th, @BlkPerspectives will be hosting an online roundtable on Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s ( @KeeangaYamahtta ) Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership ( @UNC_Press )—
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@BlkPerspectives
Black Perspectives
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"...details how the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act invigorated the movement and brought to the fore the widespread necessity of political violence as an abolitionist tool" -- writes Mike Jirik in his review of Kellie Carter Jackson's, Force and Freedom -
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Today at @Blkperspectives : @PhUsct interviews @ProfTDParry about “Black Americans and Wedding Rituals” to conclude our Black Family forum. Read the interview 👉
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"My hope is that you see the book as an offering and an opportunity to think about what it means for Black people to dare to dream, in imperfect but poignant ways..." writes @KCorinealdi in response to this week's roundtable on her book Panama in Black.
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Black Perspectives
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"The African American Intellectual History Society ( @AAIHS ) is pleased to announce the finalists for the fifth annual Pauli Murray Book Prize for the best book in Black intellectual history." #AAIHS2022
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“In the history of the slave trade and its repression, sharks have played a large part in the narratives which detail the Atlantic crossing,” writes Aderivaldo Ramos de Santana in a fascinating essay today at @BlkPerspectives .
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@BlkPerspectives
Black Perspectives
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Beginning on Mon. Aug 10 and concluding on Fri. Aug 14, in honor of Black August, @AAIHS will host an online roundtable on the Imprisoned Black Radical Tradition organized by Garrett Felber ( @garrett_felber )—
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Black Perspectives
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March 19-28 @blkperspectives is hosting a forum called "The Books, Archives, and Monuments That Shaped Me," which brings together scholars to discuss foundational books, historical monuments, and archival documents that have inspired them to be historians.
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Black Perspectives
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In today’s post on @BlkPerspectives , we begin our online forum organized by @DrSashaTurner on Eric Williams’ groundbreaking book, Capitalism and Slavery ( @uncpressblog ), with an essay from Katie Donington ( @KatieDonington ) — @AAIHS
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@BlkPerspectives
Black Perspectives
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. @BlkPerspectives , the award-winning blog of @AAIHS , is organizing an online forum in honor of #SandraBland . Please send us pieces (by 6/15) that offer #historical & contemporary perspectives on #black #women 's susceptibility to state-sanctioned #violence .
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Black Perspectives
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Beginning Dec. 7th and concluding on Dec. 11th, @BlkPerspectives will be hosting an online roundtable on Brandon Byrd’s ( @bronaldbyrd ), The Black Republic: African Americans and the Fate of Haiti ( @PennPress )—
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Black Perspectives
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New on @BlkPerspectives : Introducing New Bloggers to 'Black Perspectives' - Help us welcome our new bloggers!
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Black Perspectives
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@BlkPerspectives is excited to announce the next online forum on "Race & Latin America." This two-week forum features essays that explore how Black people are challenging ideas of “Post Racial Democracies” and understandings of race in Latin America.
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Black Perspectives
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We conclude our forum on Black Women and #ReproductiveRights with an interview of pioneering Black feminist @TheBarbaraSmith with her biographer @StrugIsEternal . "I would really beat the drum for abortion funds," she argues, and more. Check it out here:
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Black Perspectives
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. @AAIHS President @DrHettie2017 begins our forum on "Black Women and the Brown v. Board of Education decision" with an essay on Black Women at Teacher College, Columbia before 1954. She describes them as the "intellectual architects" of the Brown decision.
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@BlkPerspectives
Black Perspectives
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. @profcsanders : "For #ArethaFranklin , the song 'Respect' was more than just a hit record...It alluded to her personal commitment to social change and #equality for African Americans, which predated 'Respect.'" Read more on @BlkPerspectives : #History #Music
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Black Perspectives
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On this, the 5th anniversary of Sandra Bland’s tragic death, we still #SayHerName
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In today’s post on @BlkPerspectives , the AAIHS Editors interview Kathleen E.A. Monteith on her new book, Plantation Coffee in Jamaica 1790- 1848 ( @UWIPRESS ) — @AAIHS
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@BlkPerspectives
Black Perspectives
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@BlkPerspectives is hosting an online roundtable on @lorgia_pena 's Translating Blackness ( @dukepress ) from 9/11 until 9/15 featuring essays by Robin D. G. Kelley, April J. Mayes, @alwaystheself , @ShanaRedmond , and a response from @lorgia_pena . Read more:
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"Grace Lee Boggs and Wangari Maathai were central figures in the development of the global environmental movement," writes @DrHettie2017 . Read the full essay today at @BlkPerspectives : .
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Black Perspectives
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#AAIHS2021 : Call for Papers–A Virtual Conference (March 19-20, 2021) We invite scholars to think deeply about the complicated and often conflicted relationship between Blackness and “The West” (as a concept, imagined geography, and physical space).
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"The Haitian Revolution has been a powerful and consistent trope in US hip hop. Rappers in the United States have used hip hop to create historical counter-narratives..." writes @DrSepinwall today at @BlkPerspectives to continue our #HipHop50 forum: .
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Black Perspectives
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Today on @BlkPerspectives , Christopher D. E. Willoughby ( @antiquatedmeds ) reviews Jim Downs' ( @jimdowns1 ) Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine ( @Harvard_Press )—
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Black Perspectives
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We are pleased to announce the #AAIHS2024 award winners–winners of the Pauli Murray Book Prize, the Maria Stewart Journal Article Prize, the C.L.R. James Research Fellowships, and the Du Bois-Wells Graduate Student Paper Prize! Read more:
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Black Perspectives
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In today’s post on @BlkPerspectives , Carlyn Ferrari offers, “On Black Women’s Ecologies” as part of our #BlackEcologies series — @AAIHS
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Black Perspectives
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In today’s post on @BlkPerspectives , we conclude our joint online roundtable with @JAAHistory on Saidiya Hartman‘s #WaywardLives ( @wwnorton ) with a response from Saidiya Hartman, “Intimate History, Radical Narrative” — @aaihs
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Black Perspectives
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“The workforce—mostly black women—made plant operations possible. But what the women described as ‘15th century working conditions,’ led to 22 months of boycotting and labor unrest,” writes @TheHistorianD on the historic strike at Sandersons Farm—
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@BlkPerspectives
Black Perspectives
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As the year comes to a close, we’re featuring the ten most popular pieces we published in 2018. The #Prison Abolition Syllabus 2.0 was ranked number one! Thank you to authors @dnbrgr , @garrett_felber , @KaliGrossPhD , @elizabhinton & @AnyabwileLove ! @AAIHS
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Black Perspectives
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Today on @BlkPerspectives , we are introducing our new contributing writers and editors! -- @AAIHS
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Black Perspectives
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Tejai Beulah Howard's essay, "How Pauli Murray Masterminded Brown v. Board" continues our forum. She asserts, "Murray spent her entire legal career developing strategies to end racism and sexism in matters of the law, and later, in the Christian church."
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Black Perspectives
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ICYMI: The Historical Hatred of Haiti - @LeftSentThis #History #Haiti
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Black Perspectives
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Today on @BlkPerspectives , Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall offers, "How Hollywood Has Ignored the Haitian Revolution"—
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Today on @BlkPerspectives , Jessica Parr ( @ProvAtlantic ) offers, “The MOVE Bombing and the Callous Handling of Black Remains”—
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@BlkPerspectives
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New at @BlkPerspectives -- @MickellCarter writes, "During the 1980s, @IAMQUEENLATIFAH used her own artistry to confront social issues and injustices affecting Black communities at home and abroad." Read the latest essay in our #HipHop50 online forum 👉👉.
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Today on @BlkPerspectives , Sasha Turner ( @DrSashaTurner ) offers, "1619?" -- "Our rituals, our beliefs, melded together to heal and bring us together. Just like my mother and her mother and her mother before we go to the river to wash and to pray." --
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@BlkPerspectives
Black Perspectives
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Please save the date! We are hosting an online forum on #FrederickDouglass from Nov. 26-30. The forum will feature an interview w/ @kmorrisjr & essays by @neildsroberts , @ProfMSinha , @davidwblight , @63cjb , @NoelleTrentPhD , @bronaldbyrd & Leigh Fought.
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In today’s post on @BlkPerspectives , Yannick Marshall ( @furtherblack ) offers, “An Appeal — Bring the Maroon to the Foreground in Black Intellectual History” — @AAIHS
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@BlkPerspectives
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In today's @BlkPerspectives post, Sarah Debrew writes, "The popularity of anti-Black racism worldwide has rendered Africa an amorphous mass situated at the margins of knowledge production, despite vast amounts of material evidence proving otherwise."
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“She was a human being who grew and changed in the public spotlight in a way most people never do,” says Robert Greene II ( @robgreeneII ) about the life and legacy of civil rights activist Gloria Richardson—
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"The historical narrative on Afro-Venezuelans has been evolutionary since the turn of the twentieth century," writes Menika Dirkson in her essay, "La Afrovenezolanidad: A Historiography of the Black Experience in Venezuela"—
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In today's post on @BlkPerspectives , we begin our online roundtable on Brandon R. Byrd's ( @bronaldbyrd ), The Black Republic ( @PennPress ), with an essay from Leslie M. Alexander -- @AAIHS
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Today is the 100th anniversary of the #TulsaRaceMassacre . In this piece, attorney, professor and Tulsa #historian Hannibal B. Johnson--who serves on the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission--reflects on #history & racial trauma. @AAIHS
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"The Underground Railroad was an act of Black memorialization when the freedoms won through the war were threatened by new iterations of anti-Black violence being used to dismantle Reconstruction," writes @jwbernier today at @BlkPerspectives .
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Black Perspectives
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In today’s post on @BlkPerspectives , we continue our online forum organized by @DrSashaTurner on Eric Williams’, Capitalism and Slavery ( @uncpressblog ), with an essay from Verene A. Shepherd ( @VereneAShep ) — @AAIHS
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New on @BlkPerspectives : Bound in Wedlock: A New Book on Slave and Free Marriage in the 19th Century by Tera Hunter
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In today's post on @BlkPerspectives , @ProfTDParry interviews @Erica_L_Ball , Tatiana Seijas, and @snyder_terri on their new edited volume, As if She Were Free: A Collective Biography of Women and Emancipation in the Americas ( @CUPAcademic ) --
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📢 Coinciding with the 105th anniversary of Fannie Lou Hamer’s birthday (October 6, 1917), we are collaborating with the @CivilHumanRight to host an online roundtable on @KeishaBlain 's highly acclaimed book, Until I am Free ( @BeaconPressBks , 2021) —
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"Fugitive women displayed a radical consciousness that challenged the prevailing belief that enslaved women could not gain their freedom through subversive actions,"- @kbphd08 interviewed by @robgreeneII at @BlkPerspectives this morning.
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@HilaryGreen77 writes, "From enlistment to the pension, the working-class Black Civil War experience was a struggle for race, citizenship, and family." Read the full essay today at @BlkPerspectives :
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Starting 5/31, @BlkPerspectives will host an online forum on the theme “Black Women’s Biography.” Organized by @drashleyfarmer and @soulistaphd , this forum will feature essays from @DainaRameyBerry . @CurwoodA , @KTEwing901 , @tnflorvil , and Sherry Johnson.
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Starting on Monday! We're hosting an online roundtable on @CRileySnorton 's #BlackonBothSides : A Racial #History of #Trans Identity ( @UMinnPress ) featuring L.H. Stallings, @JulioCapoJr , @aescalante0 , @_BrothaG , @pornoscholar & @rachelzellars  – @AAIHS
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@BlkPerspectives
Black Perspectives
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In today’s post for @BlkPerspectives , we are featuring Brandon Byrd’s ( @bronaldbyrd ) new book, The Black Republic: African Americans and the Fate of Haiti ( @PennPress ) — @aaihs
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@BlkPerspectives
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Today on @BlkPerspectives , we are proud to announce this year’s editorial team! Help us celebrate: @Philadelphian91 , @aevers0n , @Reighangillam , @robgreeneII , @Polite_DPJ , @PhenomenalTiana , @Crutch4 , @kianamknight , @LeeCilli , Mikayla Harden, & @SekordriO !👉
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@BlkPerspectives
Black Perspectives
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Also today on @BlkPerspectives , Chelsey Carter ( @AudreTaughtMe2 ) and Ezelle Sanford III ( @Ezellesanford3 ) offers, “The Myth of Black Immunity: Racialized Disease during the COVID-19 Pandemic”—
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@BlkPerspectives
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Today @BlkPerspectives features @AustinMcCoy3 's #HipHop50 Syllabus that "provides resources to understanding Hip-Hop Culture’s past and present." Read more:
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In today’s post on @BlkPerspectives , Camille Goldmon reviews Karla Slocum’s book, Black Towns, Black Futures: The Enduring Allure of a Black Place in the American West ( @uncpressblog ) — @AAIHS
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"Within transatlantic communities, the oral narratives of escaped Africans, which reveal acts of strategic resistance, were central to the expression of human agency," writes @kbphd08 in "Black Resistance and Slave Politics in Lowcountry Georgia"—
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This morning, @lucien_baskin ( @SchomburgCBFS ) interviews @ksbaumg (author of In Pursuit of Knowledge), @hines_historic (author of A Worthy Piece of Work), and @brainyandbrawny (author of The Tuskegee Student Uprising) on "Black Teachers and Liberation"—
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In today's post on @BlkPerspectives , @JTRoane interviews Kellie Carter Jackson ( @kcarterjackson ) on her new book, Force and #Freedom : Black #Abolitionists and the #Politics of #Violence ( @PennPress ) -- -- #Race #History #Slavery #Abolition @AAIHS
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Today at @BlkPerspectives , Robin Kelley writes, "García Peña examines what it means to be a colonial subject of an empire in denial of its own colonial rule through the life, work, and migration of the Puerto Rican scholar and activist, Arturo Schomburg."
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@BlkPerspectives
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Today on @BlkPerspectives , Hilda Lloréns ( @ShEcoAnarchist ) offers, “Racialization works differently here in Puerto Rico, do not bring your U.S.-centric ideas about race here!”— “there is no such thing as a 'less violent' form of anti-Black racism."
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In today's post on @BlkPerspectives , Christina Proenza Coles ( @ProenzaColes ) offers a review of Erika Edwards' ( @Prof_Edwards ) book, Hiding in Plain Sight: Black Women, the Law, and the Making of a White Argentine Republic ( @UnivofALPress ) -- @AAIHS
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Today on @BlkPerspectives J.T. Roane interviews Kelisha Graves ( @KelishaGraves ) about her book "Nannie Helen Burroughs: A Documentary Portrait of an Early Civil Rights Pioneer, 1900-1959"-- @AAIHS #Activism #race #BlackWomen #civilrights #Resistance
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👉🏾This Fri. (June 1), we're launching a new blog series on #Black #Europe (eds. Kira Thurman & @amasays ). Writers include @ElisaJoyWhite , Stephen Small, @kehinde_andrews , Fatima El-Tayeb, Caroline Bressey & more! First piece on Black #Spain by @Bibliophilenick . #History @AAIHS
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Black Perspectives
2 years
Today on @BlkPerspectives , Taylor Prescott reviews Vincent Carretta’s Equiano, the African: Biography of a Self-Made Man ( @UGAPress ): "Carretta succeeds at painting Equiano as an intelligent, introspective, and enterprising individual." Read More:
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Black Perspectives
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New on @BlkPerspectives , in today's post @JTRoane interviews @AdomGetachew on her new book, Worldmaking After Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination ( @PrincetonUPress ) -- @aaihs #internationalisms #decolonization #newbooks
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Black Perspectives
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Black Perspectives
4 years
Blog Announcement: Today on @BlkPerspectives , we are happy to announce our new editing team for this academic year! @ProfTDParry @emeraldfaith @adillahunt_ @GBreezy20 @sous_rature @randymbrowne @aaihs
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Black Perspectives
6 years
👉🏾We are currently accepting applications for our spring 2019 editorial internship program. The internship, which begins in January 2019 and ends in May 2019, is open to graduate #students and advanced undergraduate students. #History #Writing @AAIHS
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Black Perspectives
2 years
“...the policing of Black women facilitated redevelopment, facilitated gentrification, facilitated the expansion of police power,” writes @SimonBalto in “How Policing Black Women’s Bodies Built the Modern City”—
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Black Perspectives
3 years
Today on @BlkPerspectives , Erica Johnson Edwards ( @DrEricaJohnson ) reviews Robin Mitchell’s ( @ParisNoire ) Vénus Noire: Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century France ( @UGAPress )—
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Black Perspectives
2 years
"It is not presentist to note that racial slavery has had an indelible and residual impact on the lives of African Americans down to contemporary times," writes @AAIHS President @DrHettie2017 at @BlkPerspectives . Read More:
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Black Perspectives
4 years
“...Afropessimism contends that ‘Blacks are not Human subjects, but are instead structurally inert props, implements for the execution of White and non-Black fantasies and sadomasochistic pleasures.‘“ writes @JRWinters77 in his review of Afropessimism —
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