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Nat Turner’s Rebellion
Patrick Breen
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2021-02-24
Nat Turner’s RebellionIntroductionIn Southampton County, Virginia, Nat Turner and six other men launched the deadliest slave revolt in the history of ...
Native Americans and African Americans
Kendra Field
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2016-06-28
Native Americans and African AmericansIntroductionSince the mid-20th century, a significant literature has developed at the intersection of Native Ame...
Negro League Baseball
Leslie Heaphy
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2020-02-26
Negro League BaseballIntroductionThe history of the Negro Leagues has been studied and written about by those in academia but also by many outside the...
New African Diaspora
Heike Raphael-Hernandez
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2016-06-28
New African DiasporaIntroductionAlso called the Second African Diaspora, postcolonial African Diaspora, or Fourth Great Migration, the New African Dia...
New Negro
Cherene Sherrard-Johnson
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2016-06-28
New NegroIntroductionAs the modest, meaningful gains of Reconstruction deteriorated into the racialized apartheid of Jim Crow segregation, an ideology...
Newton, Huey P.
Joe Street
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2021-07-28
Huey P. NewtonIntroductionHuey Percy Newton (b. 1942–d. 1989) is a singular figure in African American history. Born in Monroe, Louisiana to Armelia J...
No Child Left Behind
Stuart Greene, Kevin Burke
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2016-06-28
No Child Left BehindIntroductionFulfilling the promise of Brown v. Board of Education has remained central to the struggle for civil rights in educati...
Pan-Africanism
Omolade Adunbi
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2018-09-25
Pan-AfricanismIntroductionPan-Africanism encompasses a variety of historical, political, literary, and cultural movements seeking to draw connections ...
Parks, Rosa
Jeanne Theoharis
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2021-11-23
Rosa ParksIntroductionOn December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus and was arrested. Her courageous action galvaniz...
Political Resistance
Sampada Aranke
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2017-10-25
Political ResistanceIntroductionThinking about political resistance requires an understanding of both what constitutes the political and its various a...
Print Culture
Heidi Morse
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2016-06-28
Print CultureIntroductionPrint culture—or cultures of print, a designation some scholars prefer for its evocation of multiple and varying practices of...
Reconstruction in Literature and Intellectual Culture
Gene Andrew Jarrett
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2016-06-28
Reconstruction in Literature and Intellectual CultureIntroductionThe era widely known as Reconstruction runs from 1865, the official end of the Civil ...
Reparations and the African Diaspora
Raymond Winbush
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2016-06-28
Reparations and the African DiasporaIntroductionReparations are compensatory mechanisms devised by victims of crimes against humanity; paid by nations...
Revolutionary War and African Americans, The
Jessica Millward
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2016-06-28
The Revolutionary War and African AmericansIntroductionDespite the prolific growth in the field of African American studies, scholarship on African Am...
Robeson, Paul
Eric Jackson
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2021-07-28
Paul RobesonIntroductionMany intellectuals describe Paul Robeson as one of the nation’s greatest musicians, scholars, actors, athletes, and activists ...
Scottsboro Trials
Eric S. Yellin
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2019-02-27
Scottsboro TrialsIntroductionIn 1931, nine young African-American men were accused of raping two white women in northern Alabama while traveling on a ...
Settler Colonialism and African Americans
Tiffany King
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2019-05-29
Settler Colonialism and African AmericansIntroductionEmerging from the ranks of white settler scholars in Australia and New Zealand in the mid-2000s, ...
Simone, Nina
La Marr Jurelle Bruce
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2016-06-28
Nina SimoneIntroductionOne of the preeminent protest musicians of America’s civil rights movement, Nina Simone (b. 1933–d. 2003) was a trailblazing si...
Slavery, Visual Representations of
Renee Ater
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2016-06-28
Visual Representations of SlaveryIntroductionFrom the first encounters of Africans and Europeans to the transatlantic slave trade to the abolition of ...
Smith, Bessie
Melanie R. Hill
Subject: African American Studies »
Date Added: 2019-06-26
Bessie SmithIntroductionUnderstanding the literary pen as a fundamental tool that writes the narrative of black existence while also analyzing how the...
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