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Towards an Antifascist Pedagogy

June 18, 2019June 18, 2019 Guy Emerson Mount antifascism, pedagogy, racism, Resistance, South

On February 19th, 2019 an interracial group of socialists gathered at a local coffee shop in rural Alabama. The coffee

Place in the African American Intellectual Tradition

June 12, 2019June 9, 2019 Celeste Day Moore #AAIHSRoundtable, #RethinkingAAIH, black intellectual history, Chicago, education, geography, race, racism, Resistance, urban history

*This post is part of our online forum titled “What is African American Intellectual History?“ In thinking about the contours

Situating Standpoint Magazine: Conservative Journalism and Eugenic Ideology

June 7, 2019June 7, 2019 Alexandra Fair African Diaspora, eugenics, publishing, race, Racial Violence, racism, white supremacy

David J. Garrow’s recent article “The Troubling Legacy of Martin Luther King” ignited a firestorm of debate. After its May 30th publication in Standpoint,

Psychiatric clinic, c. 1930. Photo: PBS.

Luke Cage and the History of Medical Exploitation

May 30, 2019May 29, 2019 Matthew Teutsch comic books, comics, Luke Cage, medical experimentation, racism

The first story arc in David Walker’s Luke Cage run, “Sins of the Father,” sees Cage headed to New Orleans to attend

Frederick Douglass, ca. 1879. George K. Warren. Photo: National Archives and Records Administration/Wikipedia.

Slavery and the Family Tree

May 15, 2019May 14, 2019 Whitney Stewart Historical Memory, race, Racial Violence, racism, slavery, South

How do you make a family tree when you may not know your family history? Beyond the very real physical