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Joy James, Transcending the Talented Tenth: Black Leaders and American Intellectuals (1997) She begins with Du Bois' construction of "the Talented Tenth" as elite leadership of race managers & takes
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It is extremely concerning (to say the least) that Paul Kagame's government in Rwanda is sending people to stadiums for coronavirus detention considering that his army literally massacred people in
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“The Dred Scott case, also known as Dred Scott v. Sandford, was a decade-long fight for freedom by a Black enslaved man named Dred Scott. The case persisted through several
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The u.s. military made extensive use of Black chattel slaves before the civil war. Slaves were used to construct & staff military installations like forts. Slaves were also used as
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"Hitler’s Africa in the East: Italian Colonialism as a Model for German Planning in Eastern Europe"the Third Reich looked to the undertakings of Fascist Italy in Africa for inspiration. When
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Almost all modern governments are highly conscious of what journalists might call "international opinion". They don't like to be condemned in the United Nations, they do not want to be
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“The key to understanding the contrasts between the slave system of the United States and that of the Caribbean and Latin America… probably lies in variants in the emphasis upon
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The class character of the current abolitionist movement is not that different from that of the 18th/19th century movement IMO. Upper class professionals whose strategy, politics, and tokenizing of black
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"The first barrier that Haitians have in Chile is not the language, it is the skin color. From the color of skin, the tongue also becomes a barrier, but it
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“The British slave system was not in decline when the slave trade was abolished. On the contrary, all the evidence suggests that the slave trade was booming after 1783 –
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