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Writing Antiracism in Cuba: An Author’s Response

November 11, 2017November 20, 2017 Devyn Spence Benson #AntiracismInCuba, Cuba

This post is part of our online roundtable on Devyn Spence Benson’s Antiracism in Cuba. I still remember the first paper I wrote

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Rhetoric and Reality During Cuba’s Antiracism Campaign

November 7, 2017November 11, 2017 Sandy Placido #AAIHSRoundtable, #AntiracismInCuba, Cuba

This post is part of our online roundtable on Devyn Spence Benson’s Antiracism In Cuba. In July 1960, thousands of people from

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Anti-racism in Early Soviet Visual Culture

October 31, 2017November 3, 2017 Christina Kiaer Black October, film, Russian Revolution

This post is part of our online forum, “Black October,” on the Russian Revolution and the African Diaspora Soviet Russia was once

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How American Racism Shaped Nazism

October 5, 2017October 8, 2017 Rebecca Brenner Graham Immigration, race, racism, religion, violence, white supremacy

American democracy and liberty might appear to be the opposite of the fascism and horrors of Nazi Germany. But for

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Race, Racism, and Southern Myths

October 4, 2017October 8, 2017 William Sturkey Jim Crow, Migration, police brutality, Post-Civil War, Racial Violence, racism, reconstruction, slavery, South, white supremacy

In 2010, two historians edited a collection of thirteen essays written by white historians about “The Myth of Southern Exceptionalism.”

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