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Rob is 43% done with Debt: The First 5,000 Years
Returning at “What, Then, Were the Middle Ages?” In Ch 10
— Jul 24, 2022 04:43PM Add a comment
Debt: The First 5,000 Years





Rob
Rob is 41% done with Debt: The First 5,000 Years
The Middle Ages. The Near West. Pretty dry section.
— Jul 20, 2022 11:28PM Add a comment
Debt: The First 5,000 Years


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Rob is on page 96 of 238 of Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-First Century (American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present) (Volume 6)
On Korryn Gaines:
Questions coming up in my head of why police aren’t de-escalating situations? I know this is not exactly the topic, but it really is troubling.
— Jul 17, 2022 02:31AM Add a comment
Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-First Century (American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present) (Volume 6)




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Rob is on page 27 of 352 of Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War
“State Department cultural policy was often as improvised…as the solos of jazz artists.” (22)
— Jul 16, 2022 08:53AM Add a comment
Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War



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Rob is on page 80 of 238 of Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-First Century (American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present) (Volume 6)
Discussing the convergence of feminist principles with BLM, Ransby deals openly with concerns about sexism in Black organizing.
— Jul 13, 2022 06:33AM Add a comment
Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-First Century (American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present) (Volume 6)

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Rob is on page 84 of 384 of The Cold War and the Color Line: American Race Relations in the Global Arena
“The injustices of anti-Communist apartheid threatened to legitimate Communism as the only real defender of democracy in the region [South Africa].”
— Jul 12, 2022 01:34PM Add a comment
The Cold War and the Color Line: American Race Relations in the Global Arena




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Rob is on page 46 of 238 of Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-First Century (American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present) (Volume 6)
Long lists of names,. I suppose recognition is important in building a movement. But I'm looking for the text between the names.
— Jul 08, 2022 05:35AM Add a comment
Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom in the Twenty-First Century (American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present) (Volume 6)


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Rob is on page 44 of 384 of The Cold War and the Color Line: American Race Relations in the Global Arena
“Organisers of the Pan-African Congress in Paris in 1919 ran into opposition from the State Department, which denied passports to many Americans trying to participate in what was seen to be a radical, international, antiracist movement.”
— Jul 06, 2022 12:58PM Add a comment
The Cold War and the Color Line: American Race Relations in the Global Arena



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Rob is 50% done with Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide
Americans, in short, not only despaired of their government and laws. They abandoned the fundamental compact and creed that citizens of diverse regions, backgrounds, and faiths were united by a common history and allegiance to founding principles. (Chapter 22)
— Jul 05, 2022 06:02AM Add a comment
Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide




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