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On Authoritarianism and Civilization

December 4, 2016December 2, 2016 Neil Roberts 2016 Presidential Election, Donald Trump, marronage

This piece was originally published on Public Seminar and is reprinted here with permission. In 1890 the young W.E.B. Du

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Voting Is Not A Right of U.S. Citizens: Revisiting the 1866 Civil Rights Act

November 6, 2016November 3, 2016 Ibram X. Kendi civil rights

This piece was originally published in AHA Today, a blog of the American Historical Association, as “The Promise and Peril of

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Afro-Politics and Civil Society in Brazil: An Interview with Kwame Dixon

November 5, 2016November 5, 2016 Jaime Alves black politics, Brazil, electoral politics

In today’s guest post, Professor Jaime Alves, ‎Assistant Professor of Anthropology at CUNY Staten Island, interviews Professor Kwame Dixon about

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Decolonizing the Republic: A New Book on African and Caribbean Migrants in Postwar Paris

November 3, 2016January 1, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi France, Immigration, Migration, Paris

This post is part of a blog series I am editing, which announces the release of selected new works in African

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The NBA, Civil Rights, and Political Activism in Sports

October 26, 2016October 26, 2016 Derrick E. White Colin Kaepernick

We are only days from the opening tip of the 2016-2017 NBA season. Many fans are looking forward to watching

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