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The Invisible Threads of Gender, Race, and Slavery

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On March 24, 2017 the United Nations commemorated its ten-year anniversary for the International Day of Remembrance honoring the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. This year, the theme chosen for the commemoration is “Remember Slavery: Recognizing the Legacy and Contributions of People of African Descent.” In the keynote address…

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A Hemispheric Approach to Contemporary Black Activism

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By Larnies A. Bowen and Ayanna Legros – Cláudia Silva Ferreira, Eric Garner, Korryn Gaines, Jonathan Moreira, Aiyanna Stanley-Jones, Freddie Gray, Rogério Silva … Naming as a strategy to counter the official devaluation of Black life has become a crucial tactic in today’s movements against racialized violence. In 2014, the same year that the recording of Eric Garner’s killing…

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Blackbooks for Study & Struggle – Spring 2017

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Afro-Atlantic Flight: Speculative Returns and the Black Fantastic by Michelle D. Commander, Black Rights/White Wrongs: The Critique of Racial Liberalism by Charles W. Mills, Fugitive Science: Empiricism and Freedom in Early African American Culture by Britt Rusert, In Full Color: Finding My Place in a Black and White World by Rachel Dolezal with Storms Reback…

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