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Alphaeus Hunton: The Fight for Equality and Liberation during WWII

September 9, 2021September 8, 2021 Tony Pecinovsky African Diaspora, black politics, Black radicalism

It has been argued that the Communist Party, USA (CPUSA) neglected the struggle for African American equality during World War

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Confronting Reactionaries: Black Support for The Progressive Party During the Cold War

May 4, 2020May 3, 2020 Denise Lynn anti-capitalism, Black political thought, black politics, capitalism, Communism, Communist Party, Politics

During the Cold War, progressive voices were being drowned out by the drumbeat of war, as military and political relations

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Corporate Imperialism vs. Black (Educational) Liberation

February 24, 2020February 23, 2020 Jarvis R. Givens #AAIHSRoundtable, #APoliticalEducation, Activism, Black political thought, capitalism, education, education reform, imperialism

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Elizabeth Todd-Breland’s A Political Education: Black Politics and Education Reform in Chicago Since

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Online Roundtable—A Political Education: Black Politics and Education Reform in Chicago since the 1960s

February 18, 2020February 16, 2020 AAIHS Editors #AAIHSRoundtable, #APoliticalEducation, Activism, black intellectual history, black politics, education, race

February 24–28, 2020 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online roundtable on Elizabeth Todd-Breland’s A Political

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(Anti-)Imperialism, Knowledge Production, and Political Economy

November 27, 2019November 24, 2019 Charisse Burden-Stelly #AAIHSRoundtable, #WorldmakingafterEmpire, African Diaspora, Anticolonialism, black internationalism, black politics, capitalism, colonialism, decolonization, Resistance

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Adom Getachew’s Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination In Worldmaking after Empire:

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