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Race and the Politics of Knowledge Production in African Studies

April 8, 2019August 12, 2022 Marius Kothor africa, African Diaspora, black intellectual history, black politics, Black Studies, education, Pan-Africanism, race, racism, white supremacy

In the United States, African scholars are conspicuously underrepresented in the field of African Studies. For years, Black scholars have

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The Rich Legacy of African American Political and Intellectual History

March 19, 2019March 31, 2019 Robert Greene II black intellectual history, black internationalism, black lives matter, Black political thought, Black women, book review

In 1962, the magazine Negro Digest published a blistering critique of African American intellectuals by the sociologist E. Franklin Frazier. Titled, “The

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Queen Mother Moore: Matriarch of the Captive African Nation

February 27, 2019March 9, 2019 Akinyele Umoja #QueenMotherMoore, Activism, black nationalism, Black women, Gender, Pan-Africanism

Today’s post is part of a week-long series featuring excerpts from a special issue on activist Queen Mother Audley Moore.

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The Significance of Private Collectors in African American History

February 20, 2019March 31, 2019 E. James West African Diaspora, archives, race

In April 1970, Ebony magazine published a feature on advertising executive Clarence Holte, who was approaching the end of a

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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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