Keepin’ It Real in Contemporary Conversations on Race
Elwood David Watson’s Keepin’ It Real: Essays on Race in Contemporary America is a collection of essays analyzing tumultuous racial politics
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Distinguishing Abolition from Reform
*This essay is part of our online forum on Eric Williams’ Capitalism and Slavery (1944), organized by historian Sasha Turner. The forum is in
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Black Radical Abner Berry and the Limitations of Liberal Alliances
In the midst of the historical moment that has been the long 2020, we are witnessing several convergences which some
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Ties that Bind? Emerging Race-Conscious Alliances Between African Immigrants and Black Americans
The atrocity of George Floyd’s killing by police has stoked anger over systemic racism while also helping redraw geographic, demographic,
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Confronting Reactionaries: Black Support for The Progressive Party During the Cold War
During the Cold War, progressive voices were being drowned out by the drumbeat of war, as military and political relations
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