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Haiti and the Birth of Black Internationalism in the United States

September 10, 2024September 4, 2024 Michael Lawrence Dickinson 0 Comments
Haiti, Haitian Revolution

“What happened in Haiti between 1791 and 1804 contradicted much of what happened elsewhere in the world before and since..But

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Online Forum:10th Anniversary of Black Perspectives Celebration, Part I

January 22, 2024January 22, 2024 AAIHS Editors

January 23, 2024 to February 1, 2024 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS),

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Convict Leasing in the Family

January 17, 2024January 16, 2024 Menika Dirkson carceral state, mass incarceration, racism, South

Around 1920, twenty-four-year-old E. Hooper left her rural hometown of Chester, South Carolina for the big city where she could

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The Meaning of Black Inexpression

October 10, 2023October 8, 2023 Rhya Moffitt Black Studies, book review, Deadpan, Performance

Tina Post’s first monograph, Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression, charts the territory of deadpan as a Black aesthetic practice. Deadpan, a

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Black Women’s Activism through History and Poetry

October 2, 2023September 7, 2023 Cathleen D. Cahill Black women, Carrie Williams Clifford, Club women, freedom, poetry

“Somehow, we’ve weathered and witnessed a nation that isn’t broken, but simply unfinished.” -Amanda Gorman, The Hill We Climb  Those

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