Derrick R. Spires

@drkmttr82

Scholar of C19 Black lit and culture. Lover of black speculative fiction.

Vrijeme pridruživanja: studeni 2015.

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    10. velj 2019.

    My book is out! THE PRACTICE OF CITIZENSHIP: BLACK POLITICS AND PRINT CULTURE IN THE EARLY UNITED STATES with ! 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿What happens to our thinking about citizenship if we base our working definitions on black writers' proactive theoretical work?

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    Check out the newest AMST faculty affiliate in conversation with Hazel Carby. (Bonus: playlist!)

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  3. prije 6 sati

    The John Henrik Clarke Africana Library at Cornell is on Twitter! . Drop by for this "History is a Clock" blogpost by Africana Library Director, Eric Kofi Acree.

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    Black History is More Than a Month: Eric Kofi Acree A few years ago, I did a Black History Month presentation for 5 and 12 year old children at the Greater Ithaca Activity

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    prije 8 sati

    Join us at the when we join , local faculty, and the Detroit Free Black Women's Library for an afternoon celebrating Black Women's activism! 1-4pm in Hatcher Gallery. Event lovingly curated by and

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    prije 10 sati

    Like the story of any well-burnished movement that passes from one generation to another without the luxury of forming a patina of the past, this is a history that reflects exclusion + rejection as well as inspiration + motivation. on ongoing struggles 4 Blk rights

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    31. sij

    PLEASE SHARE WIDELY: available from the Marcus Garvey Memorial Foundation for grad students working in African, African American, & African Diaspora History/Studies [PDF]:

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    3. velj

    Congrats to , whose article won the Research Society for American Periodicals 2018–19 Article Prize, and to , who received honorable mention for the same award! Links to both essays, free through April, below.

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    1/3 Today ⁦⁩ and I share the release of A BLACK WOMEN’S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. We did not write this book alone thanks to a group of scholars we had a manuscript workshop ⁦⁩ last year so we must begin with gratitude to our sister scholars.

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    prije 8 sati

    Next Friday, Feb 14th from 12-3pm EST: Help transcribe Anna Julia Cooper's papers with and ! All details - including where to find your local celebration & instructions on how to host your own - can be found here:

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    3. velj

    Derrick Spires kicks off a new tradition— keynote talks! We are thrilled. We would love to hear about other talks and activities!

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  12. prije 8 sati

    Excited to be talking about “Frederick Douglass’s Practice of Citizenship” as the keynote for and at UTK! Come thru if you’re near Knoxville!

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    . alumna, Dr. Linda B. Brown, talked about her book, Belles of Liberty: Gender, Bennett College, and the Civil Rights Movement, about the February 1960 sit-in that took place at a food counter in Woolworth’s in Greensboro, North Carolina. 💙🔔

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    1. velj

    Black woman historian here and sorry to see overlook the young women, including those students at , who were equally part of this historic moment in ! Let’s do better ! Learn even more here:

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    Poet Langston Hughes was . Check out this 2018 article which discusses a surprising new discovery about Hughes’ birth year.

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    31. sij
    Odgovor korisnicima i sljedećem broju korisnika:

    All of my code is open-source, and I'd love for people to re-use it! The repo can be found here: - it will be updated regularly as the year progresses and as I build out the machine learning pipeline and UI!

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    30. sij
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    30. sij

    Alongside with large conventions, Black citizens continuously gathered for rallies and county-based conventions (also to prepare state and national conventions). Their rhizomatic movements for citizenship per se represent democratic ideals. (4/03/1844 PL)

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    30. sij

    “To listen at the door is by nature a transgressive action. It is to listen when you shouldn’t. It is to listen when you have not been invited.” From my talk on archival intimacy, the power and erotics of listening.

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    30. sij

    Poet Honoree Jeffers just followed us. Swoon.

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