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Intergenerational Dynamics

January 8, 2012 By Chris Brancaccio Leave a Comment Filed Under: 68/08 Tagged With: #history

Growing up, all of the older women I knew (mainly my two grandmothers and the grandmothers of my friends) were anything but activists.  Then there is Judy.  I had to interview Judy for a class assignment; I wanted to know about 1968 from the perspective of someone who hadn’t been a youth, wasn’t in the […]

Negro Digest/Black World

January 8, 2012 By Chris Brancaccio Leave a Comment Filed Under: 68/08

Negro Digest/Black World is a fascinating artifact because the content of each issue seems to evade rigid binaries like integrationist or nationalist, and therefore became a very real space for public debate. For instance, the November 1966 issue contains an article entitled Black Power Symposium features 12 different opinions on Black Power, offered by a […]

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