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Online Roundtable: Devyn Spence Benson’s Antiracism in Cuba

October 1, 2017November 7, 2017 AAIHS Editors #AntiracismInCuba, Afro-Cubans, Cuba

November 6-11, 2017 Black Perspectives, the blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online roundtable on Devyn Spence

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Colorism as Racism: Garvey, Du Bois and the Other Color Line

May 24, 2017May 26, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi Colorism, Marcus Garvey, racism, W.E.B. Du Bois

One hundred years ago this month, Marcus Mosiah Garvey and thirteen associates gathered in a Harlem basement to found the

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Fugitive Science: A New Book on Scientific Racism in America

May 6, 2017May 9, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi black intellectual history, Frederick Douglass, racism, racist ideas

This post is part of my blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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Police Brutality and Racism in Germany

April 17, 2017April 20, 2017 Eddie Bruce-Jones African Diaspora, police brutality, police violence

Oury Jalloh, a man in his thirties from Sierra Leone, had applied for asylum in Germany and was living in

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On Racism and Racial Violence in the Comics

April 4, 2017April 8, 2017 Matthew Teutsch #comicsandrace, comic books, lynching

This guest post is part of our blog series on Comics, Race, and Society, edited by Julian Chambliss and Walter

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