Top stories published by African American Studies Response Series in 2015

Imani Perry, Rinaldo Walcott, Che Gossett and Eddie S. Glaude Jr. offer closing thoughts on the rallying cry of Black Lives Matter for Focus, the African American Studies Response Series. #FocusAAS21

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Sep 16, 2015

Black Lives Matter charges theft — but not genocide

To: Focus
From: Joy James
Date: September 16, 2015, 7:35am

The activists of the diverse #BLM — co-founded by black, queer women — work as forensic scientists. They…

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Sep 18, 2015

The ties that bind Black Lives Matter

From: Imani Perry
To: Focus
Date: September 18, 2015, 9:51am

Let me begin with a limitation, or a vexation, with the digital age slogan or the hashtag era, period. In the digital age, the…

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Oct 23, 2015

Confronting the triads of black life/death

To: Focus
From: Joy James
Date: October 24, 2015, 9:04pm

Our discussions of BLM/SayHerName are complicated: by empire and global anti-racist solidarity; terror and the…

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Oct 26, 2015

Doing the Work

To: Focus
From: Jessica Marie Johnson
Date: October 26, 2015, 10:31am

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