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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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The Black Avenger: ‘The Essential Trope of Atlantic Modernity’

February 6, 2020February 2, 2020 Benjamin Fagan #BlackPanther, African Diaspora, Caribbean, comic books, comics, Haiti, racism, white supremacy

In the years before and since the release and reception of the blockbuster 2018 film, Black Panther, the iconic Marvel

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Charlotta Bass for Vice-President: America’s Two-Parties and the Black Vote

January 21, 2020August 19, 2020 Denise Lynn Activism, black intellectual history, black politics, Black women, capitalism, Communism, Politics, white supremacy

Social media has brought the culture wars to a larger audience and demonstrates how conservatives have constructed historical narratives to

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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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