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Memory, Experience, and Imagination in Black Religion

September 28, 2017September 30, 2017 Chernoh Sesay Jr. #AAIHSRoundtable, #NewWorld, black internationalism, black nationalism, Garveyism, Great Migration, Immigration, Nation of Islam, religion

This post is part of our online roundtable on Judith Weisenfeld’s New World A-Coming Judith Weisenfeld’s New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. "Landing of first twenty slaves at Jamestown." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1911.

The Fallacy of 1619: Rethinking the History of Africans in Early America

September 4, 2017September 6, 2017 Michael Guasco colonial America, colonialism, slave trade, slavery

In 1619, “20. and odd Negroes” arrived off the coast of Virginia, where they were “bought for victualle” by labor-hungry

"Freedmen Voting in New Orleans," engraving, 1867. Photo: New York Public Library Digital Collections.

The Gift of Black Folk and the Emancipation of American History

June 19, 2017June 21, 2017 Westenley Alcenat black intellectual history, reconstruction, slavery, W.E.B. Du Bois

“Our song, our toil, our cheer, and warming have been given to this nation in blood-brotherhood. Are not these gifts

Marcus Garvey. Photo: Caribbean National Weekly.

Colorism as Racism: Garvey, Du Bois and the Other Color Line

May 24, 2017May 26, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi Colorism, Marcus Garvey, racism, W.E.B. Du Bois

One hundred years ago this month, Marcus Mosiah Garvey and thirteen associates gathered in a Harlem basement to found the

American University. Photo: Wikimedia/Samschoe.

The Art of Domination: On Decolonizing the Curriculum

May 16, 2017May 18, 2017 Jordanna Matlon education, education reform, racism, teaching

Those professors among us who teach from the perspective of the oppressed are often tasked with un-teaching what our students