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Mar 23

Dismal Nationalism

Tim Harper’s Underground Asia: Global Revolutionaries and the Assault on Empire tells the dramatic story of the shadowy networks of revolutionaries across Asia who laid the foundations in the early twentieth century for the end of European imperialism on their continent. Underground Asia was a Financial Times and Economist best…

History

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Dismal Nationalism
Dismal Nationalism
History

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Mar 13

Cannibal Gold

Exhibiting at The Shed through April 16 is The Yanomami Struggle, a collection dedicated to the Yanomami people’s fight against the invasion of their land. The exhibition features paintings and drawings by contemporary Yanomami artists and is narrated through the voice of shaman Davi Kopenawa. Below is an excerpt from…

Science

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Cannibal Gold
Cannibal Gold
Science

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Feb 27

The Fugitive Slave as a Folk Hero in Black Education

Jarvis R. Givens chronicles the subversive tradition of Black education in America in his award-winning book Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching. This excerpt unpacks the complicated narrative of the fugitive slave and its place in both Black collective memory and curricula. The theory of…

Education

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The Fugitive Slave as a Folk Hero in Black Education
The Fugitive Slave as a Folk Hero in Black Education
Education

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Feb 23

Can You Dig It with Beyoncé?

Black History Month highlights the importance of recognizing the essential work Black artists do to define — and redefine — culture. In her award-winning book Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound, Daphne Brooks unpacks the iconography of Beyoncé’s legendary visual album Lemonade in relation…

Music

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Music

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Oct 31, 2022

To Autumn

October 31st marks John Keats birthday, and it is also the publication date of Susan J. Wolfson’s new book, A Greeting of the Spirit: Selected Poetry of John Keats with Commentaries. We’d like to honor both by sharing Keats’s poem “To Autumn.” As Wolfson says in her commentary, the poem…

Poetry

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To Autumn
To Autumn
Poetry

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Feb 22, 2022

On Ethel Waters and Zora Neale Hurston

We round out our celebration of Black History Month with an excerpt from Daphne Brooks’s Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound, winner of the PEN Oakland–Josephine Miles Award and a Rolling Stone Best Music Book of the Year. “Vivid, joyful, and heartbreaking in its…

Music

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On Ethel Waters and Zora Neale Hurston
On Ethel Waters and Zora Neale Hurston
Music

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Feb 15, 2022

The Story of an Atlantic Slave War

Our third excerpt to celebrate Black History Month comes from Vincent Brown’s award-winning Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War, which Cornel West calls “brilliant” and “groundbreaking.” This gripping account of the largest slave revolt in the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world, an uprising that laid bare the interconnectedness…

Black History Month

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The Story of an Atlantic Slave War
The Story of an Atlantic Slave War
Black History Month

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Feb 8, 2022

Traveling Black

All this month we are celebrating Black History Month with excerpts from some of our recent books. In Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance, a New York Times Critics’ Top Book of 2021 and a book that Ibram X. Kendi calls “extraordinary,” Mia Bay provides a riveting, character-rich…

Black History Month

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Traveling Black
Traveling Black
Black History Month

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Feb 1, 2022

The Origin Story of Black Education

To celebrate Black History Month, we’ve chosen excerpts from our books that reflect varied aspects of the Black experience. Fittingly, our first excerpt comes from a book about historian and educator Carter Woodson, the founder of Black History Month. The Los Angeles Review of Books praised Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G…

Education

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The Origin Story of Black Education
The Origin Story of Black Education
Education

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Oct 20, 2021

Outbreak Culture

As we saw with the Ebola outbreak — and the disastrous early handling of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic — a lack of preparedness, delays, and system-wide problems with the distribution of critical medical supplies can have deadly consequences. Yet after every outbreak, the systems put in place to coordinate emergency…

Medicine

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Outbreak Culture
Outbreak Culture
Medicine

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