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Black Gods Among Us: In and Beyond HBO’s Watchmen

February 11, 2020February 9, 2020 Ahmad Greene-Hayes #Watchmen, Black Queers, race, Racial Violence, racism, religion, Resistance, Visual Culture, white supremacy

*This post is part of our online forum organized by Ahmad Greene-Hayes on HBO’s hit series Watchmen. In the early

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A Meditation on Natural Light and the Use of Fire in United States Slavery

January 13, 2020January 12, 2020 Tyler Parry black rebellion, environment, Racial Violence, Resistance, slavery, white supremacy

In her September 16, 2019 post for Black Perspectives, “Race and the Paradoxes of the Night,” cultural anthropologist Celeste Henery

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The Black Shoals: A New Book Theorizing Formations of Black and Native Studies

November 22, 2019November 22, 2019 J. T. Roane Black Studies, colonialism, genocide, Indigenous Studies, Racial Violence, settler-colonialism, slavery, white supremacy

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

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The “Mock Revolution” at Mosinee: On The Racism of Anti-Communism in the US

November 20, 2019November 16, 2019 Denise Lynn black politics, capitalism, Communism, Communist Party, Politics, Racial Violence, social justice, white supremacy

For most of the last one hundred and fifty years, anti-communism has been a defining aspect of American political

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The Last Lynching Victim in South Carolina

October 31, 2019October 25, 2019 Brent M. S. Campney book review, Historical Memory, Jim Crow, lynching, Racial Violence, racism, South

In They Stole Him Out of Jail: Willie Earle, South Carolina’s Last Lynching Victim, William B. Gravely, professor emeritus at

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