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Unilever’s Ads and the History of Sexual Abuse Under Slavery

September 19, 2019September 19, 2019 Thomas A. Foster art, Gender, race, Racial Violence, racism, sexuality, slavery

In a typical US advertisement for Magnum ice cream, a young, attractive white woman devours an ice-cream treat coated in chocolate. The

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Transnational Legacies of Slavery and Revolution in ‘The Black Scholar’

September 18, 2019September 16, 2019 Cristina Mislán African Diaspora, Afro-Cubans, black internationalism, Black Power, Caribbean, Cuba, Pan-Africanism, race

Some months after visiting Havana, Cuba in late fall of 1976, Robert Chrisman — editor-in-chief of the journal The Black Scholar —

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Race and the Paradoxes of the Night

September 16, 2019September 8, 2019 Celeste Henery criminal justice system, environment, race, racism, urban history, white supremacy

In 2001, John Bortle, an experienced, American amateur astronomer, created a scale to measure the darkness of a night’s sky.

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Upending the Ivory Tower: An Author’s Response

September 13, 2019September 16, 2019 Stefan M. Bradley #AAIHSRoundtable, #UpendingTheIvoryTower, Activism, Black Power, black protest, education, race, Resistance

*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with the Journal of Civil and Human Rights on Stefan M. Bradley’s Upending the Ivory

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Revisiting the Talented Tenth: On Black Ivy League Activism

September 12, 2019September 16, 2019 Zebulon Vance Miletsky #AAIHSRoundtable, #UpendingTheIvoryTower, Activism, Black Power, black protest, education, race, Resistance

*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with the Journal of Civil and Human Rights on Stefan M. Bradley’s Upending the Ivory

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