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The Black Shoals: A New Book Theorizing Formations of Black and Native Studies

November 22, 2019November 22, 2019 J. T. Roane Black Studies, colonialism, genocide, Indigenous Studies, Racial Violence, settler-colonialism, slavery, white supremacy

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

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The Taproot Remains: On the Life and Legacy of Ernest J. Gaines

November 7, 2019November 6, 2019 Matthew Teutsch black intellectual history, cults, Deep South, Ernest Gaines, library, literature, Louisiana, South

On an acre of land, in South Louisiana, surrounded by sugar cane fields, Ernest J. Gaines will be laid to

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. "Funeral of nineteen year old Negro saw mill worker in Heard County, Georgia, May 1941." New York Public Library Digital Collections.

Death, Grieving, and the Necessity of History

June 17, 2019June 9, 2019 Sasha Turner Black Death Ideology, Black women, Caribbean, mourning

“You have been complaining at lot about being cold these days.” My dear friend, Deirdre Cooper Owens (Dee-Dee) said to

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Roberta Elder: The Case of a Black Woman Serial Killer

May 28, 2019May 28, 2019 Denise Lynn Black women, Gender, police violence, violence, white supremacy

The killings may have started as early as 1938, but no one suspected murder until Reverend William M. Elder died

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The Trauma of Racial Violence in Frederick Douglass’s America

April 24, 2019April 22, 2019 Kay Wright Lewis #DouglassForward, black lives matter, black protest, Black women, civil rights, Frederick Douglass, police brutality, police violence, Racial Violence, racism

*This post is part of the online forum on The Futures of Frederick Douglass. The contributions in this forum each

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