Search Results for: Du Bois

The Legend of the Black Mecca: A New Book on Politics and Class in Atlanta

December 16, 2017December 21, 2017 Julie Hawks Atlanta, gentrification, poverty

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

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Centrist Liberalism and the Myths of the American Past

December 13, 2017December 18, 2017 Westenley Alcenat Donald Trump, Immigration, Racial Capitalism, reconstruction, Trumpism, W.E.B. Du Bois, white supremacy

We are now a full year into the Trump Administration, and a serious ideological challenge has yet to be leveled

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Slavery, the Plantation Myth, and Alternative Facts

December 6, 2017December 14, 2017 Tyler Parry slavery, South

Earlier this year, NBC journalist Chuck Todd pressed  the Counselor to the US President, Kellyanne Conway, to explain spurious claims made

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Interracial Intimacy and Film as Social Commentary

November 18, 2017November 22, 2017 Matthew Teutsch film, Interracial relationships, masculinity

Fifty years ago, the Supreme Court struck down anti-miscegenation laws in Loving v. Virginia. In 1969, the first interracial sex scene

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African American Freedom and the Illusive “Forty Acres and a Mule”

November 16, 2017November 17, 2017 Karen Cook Bell economic justice, landownership, race, racism, reconstruction, Resistance, South

On August 18, 2016, the United Nations Working Group on Experts of People of African Descent determined that the history

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