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#BlackPerspectives is the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual #History Society (@AAIHS). Subscribe today: bit.ly/33wYyxB
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    Black Perspectives
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    Nov 17, 2022
    "The Wilmington Massacre of 1898 remains one of the clearest demonstrations of white supremacy and Jim Crow violently erasing the progress and promise of African America," writes @Polite_DPJ today at @BlkPerspectives as a part of our #BlackFamily forum. aaihs.org/black-families…
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    Black Perspectives
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    Mar 30, 2023
    Today on @BlkPerspectives, Ida E. Jones reviews Freeman Marshall’s Ain’t I an Anthropologist: Zora Neale Hurston Beyond the Literary Icon (@IllinoisPress): "an insightful read about how academic obscurity can pigeonhole the legacy of Black women thinkers"—aaihs.org/zora-neale-hur…
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    Sep 22, 2022
    "McGill University’s institutional history dramatically changes when it accounts for the fact that its founder, James McGill, was an enslaver and trader of enslaved Black and Indigenous people," pens @MelissaNShaw. Read more on Black Canadian Slavery here: aaihs.org/historical-leg…
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    Black Perspectives
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    May 12, 2020
    Beginning on Mon. May 18 and concluding on Fri. May 22, @AAIHS in collaboration with @JAAHistory will host an online roundtable on Saidiya Hartman’s (@sojournerlife) Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval (@wwnorton)— aaihs.org/online-roundta…
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    Black Perspectives
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    Jun 6, 2022
    “We see her at flashpoints in her husband’s political and very public career and get glimpses of her private life through family and foe.  Douglass’s biographers mention but never dwell on her. Who was Anna Murray Douglass?,” writes @DainaRameyBerry— aaihs.org/searching-for-…
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    Black Perspectives
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    Jul 20, 2020
    Today on @BlkPerspectives, Joy James (@DrJoyJames) offers, “Airbrushing Revolution for the Sake of Abolition”— aaihs.org/airbrushing-re…
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    Black Perspectives
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    Dec 14, 2022
    "Black women’s socio-political activism publicly demonstrated a nuanced understanding of the [Civil War's] profound and damaging impact on various Black communities," writes Holly Pinheiro today at @BlkPerspectives. aaihs.org/julia-w-garnet…
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    Black Perspectives
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    Jul 20, 2021
    Today on @BlkPerspectives, Holly A. Pinheiro, Jr. (@PhUsct) offers, “Black Women, the Civil War, and United States Colored Troops”— aaihs.org/black-women-th…
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    Black Perspectives
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    Dec 25, 2019
    In what has now become a yearly tradition we return to @Y__Barragan’s wondetful essay— Christmas and Resistance to Slavery in the Americas aaihs.org/christmas-and-… via @AAIHS
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    Apr 21, 2020
    Today on @BlkPerspectives, Nathan Connolly offers a review of Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s (@KeeangaYamahtta) book, Race for Profit (@uncpressblog), which could also help us make sense of the inequality we are all bearing witness to with Covid-19 — aaihs.org/racism-after-r…… @AAIHS
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    Black Perspectives
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    Dec 12, 2019
    “The African American Intellectual History Society (@AAIHS) stands in solidarity with Dr. Lorgia García Peña, a Black Studies scholar who was recently denied tenure at Harvard University.” — A Response from Black Scholars — aaihs.org/black-scholars…
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    Black Perspectives
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    Mar 4, 2021
    Also today on @BlkPerspectives, we are pleased to announce the finalist for the fourth annual Pauli Murray Book Prize for the best book in Black intellectual history. Congratulations @bronaldbyrd, @garrett_felber, @jmjafrx, @richardkevans, and @QuitoSwan— aaihs.org/2021-finalists…
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    Black Perspectives
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    Aug 2, 2022
    "The connecting tissue between 1662 and 2022 are fundamentally rooted in the history of slavery and reproduction," writes @ProfJLMorgan today at @BlkPerspectives. aaihs.org/reproductive-r…
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    Black Perspectives
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    Sep 4, 2017
    #New on @BlkPerspectives: Colin Kaepernick and the Power of #Black Silent Protest - @LeftSentThis bit.ly/2gxi17f #Protest #Justice