Medgar Evers’s Legacy of Organizing in Mississippi
Although Medgar Evers is one of the most widely recognized figures of the Civil Rights Movement, many people do not
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Politics
The Roots of Antiblackness in the US and Brazil
At its core The Denial of Antiblackness: Multiracial Redemption & Black Suffering by João Vargas proposes an intriguing methodological question: Is
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An Intellectual History of Liberation Theology
The Women’s March, led by women of color activists such as Linda Sarsour and Tamika Mallory, brought millions out to
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The National Character of Black Oppression
For the first two-thirds of the twentieth century, a small cadre of activist intellectuals sought to understand African American exploitation
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Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement
As the primary setting for slavery, sharecropping, and racialized Southern rural poverty, agriculture has–for good reason–been principally portrayed as a
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