Historical Facts

I've recently been working on some essays for an undergraduate resource, in which several different scholars answer the same question with different answers. The idea is to give undergrads a sense of the way a historical argument is composed, as well as a range of ways to answer major historical questions.One of my questions was: "Do African Americans constitute a nation within a nation?" In

In my new outlook of the dissertation as only the beginning of a whole new journey of understanding, I'm going to try to read much more broadly this summer (beyond my own "Derrida," as the movie below points out, with much amusement).I'm just rereading "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King, Jr. The last time I read it, I completely understood his frustration with the "Patience"

Interesting thoughts about historical methodology and theory from Adolph Reed in 1997 (I highlighted the Kuhn reference I mention in my title):9: It is natural enough--given the primacy of racial subordination and oppression--that Afro-American thinking has been so thoroughly dominated by issues of racial strategy. What Myrdal overlooked, however, is that even the narrowest, most 'provincial'