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Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement

March 5, 2019March 9, 2019 Edward Dunsworth Activism, black politics, Politics, Resistance, South

As the primary setting for slavery, sharecropping, and racialized Southern rural poverty, agriculture has–for good reason–been principally portrayed as a

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Black Thought and Sexual Politics: An Interview with Guy Emerson Mount

January 17, 2019January 29, 2019 Chris Shell black intellectual history, Frederick Douglass, Interracial relationships

In today’s post, Christopher Shell, a PhD student at Michigan State University, interviews historian Guy Emerson Mount about his chapter in New Perspectives on Black

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Readings on Transnational African American History

January 8, 2019January 29, 2019 Nico Slate and Clayton Vaughn-Roberson Activism, black internationalism, Politics

African American History has always transcended borders of many kinds, yet historians have not always recognized the transnational and global

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Race and the Remaking of Trans History: An Author’s Response

December 7, 2018December 10, 2018 C. Riley Snorton #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackonBothSides, archives, Gender, race

*This post is part of our online roundtable on C. Riley Snorton’s Black on Both Sides.  Part I A few weeks ago, on Sunday,

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Transgendering Labor: Black Mothers and Black Men

December 5, 2018December 10, 2018 Ahmad Greene-Hayes #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackonBothSides, Gender

*This post is part of our online roundtable on C. Riley Snorton’s Black on Both Sides. The author discusses the third chapter: ‘Reading the

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