Race, Economics, and the Persistence of Slavery
*This post is part of our roundtable on Keri Leigh Merritt’s Masterless Men. Since Eric Williams’s classic study Slavery and Capitalism (1944), historians
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Economics
Online Roundtable: Keri Leigh Merritt’s “Masterless Men”
March 5-9, 2018 Black Perspectives, the blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting a roundtable on Keri Leigh Merritt’s Masterless Men: Poor
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Martin Luther King Jr. and the Tradition of Radical Blackness
This year marks the 50th anniversary of not only Martin Luther King Jr.’s April 4, 1968 assassination, but also the massive
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Eugenics and the Modern Conservative Movement
On December 26, 2017, The New York Times published an op-ed by the widely known North Carolinian activist, Rev. William
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To Shape a New World: A New Book on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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