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Dr. Barbara Ransby

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BlackCommentator.com Editorial Board member Barbara Ransby, PhD is a historian, writer and longtime activist. She is Professor of African American Studies, History and Gender and Women's Studies at University of Illinois at Chicago where she also directs the Gender and Women's Studies Program. Dr. Ransby serves on the editorial board of "Race and Class" and is also the author of the award-winning biography, "Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision (Gender and American Culture)". Click here to contact Dr. Ransby. Share or Print this Page of BC |

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A Response to Skip Gates’ Call for Slavery Absolution

By Dr. Barbara Ransby Editorial Board

In a recent New York Times editorial, entitled, “Ending the Slavery Blame-Game,” (April 23) Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates calls on the United States” first Black president to end the nation’s sense of responsibility for the legacy of slavery. It is a pernicious argument, well suited to the so-called “postracial” moment we are in. Like…

In a recent New York Times editorial, entitled, “Ending the Slavery Blame-Game,” (April 23) Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates calls on the United States" first Black…

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