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Dressed in Dreams: A New Book about the Power of Black Fashion

June 25, 2019June 24, 2019 J. T. Roane Activism, art, Black women, fashion, Gender, Resistance

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

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Inculcated Forgetfulness at a New England Port

June 20, 2019June 13, 2019 Lise Breen abolitionism, Activism, black politics, black protest, Civil War, Frederick Douglass, Post-Civil War, race, racism, slave trade, slavery, South

In the fall of 1865, Frederick Douglass riveted a small New England audience for more than two hours. Long forgotten,

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When John Hope Franklin and Pepsi Made a Black History Record

June 19, 2019June 23, 2019 Joshua Clark Davis Black History Month, black intellectual history, capitalism, Historiography, John Hope Franklin

A decade after his death, John Hope Franklin remains among the most prominent historians to ever chronicle the African American

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Towards an Antifascist Pedagogy

June 18, 2019June 18, 2019 Guy Emerson Mount antifascism, pedagogy, racism, Resistance, South

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

June 12, 2019June 9, 2019 Celeste Day Moore #AAIHSRoundtable, #RethinkingAAIH, black intellectual history, Chicago, education, geography, race, racism, Resistance, urban history

*This post is part of our online forum titled “What is African American Intellectual History?“ In thinking about the contours

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