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Professor Alexis Dudden on BFM Morning Brief Podcast Segment “What’s Behind the China-Japan Spat”
Professor Alexis Dudden was featured to explain the context and significance of a recent diplomatic exchange between the Japanese prime minister and Chinese officials. Full segment available here: What’s Behind the China-Japan Spat
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The First Fascist
Sergio Luzzatto Harvard University Press, 2026 (US); Penguin Books, 2026 (UK) A vivid biography of the nineteenth-century French-Italian aristocrat Marquis de Morès, the first political leader to master the blend of racialized hatred, cross-class solidarity, and paramilitary violence that Benito Mussolini would call “fascism.”
[Read More]Professor Fiona Vernal’s Oral History Exhibition “Bloomfield Mosaic: Stories from our Jewish, African American, and West Indian Communities” Opens at Alvin and Beatrice Wood Human Services Center
Fiona Vernal, Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies and Associate Director of the Africana Studies Institute, and graduate student Tim Brown, with the help of community volunteers recorded oral histories and digitized photos that were used to curate the exhibit. The work for the exhibit began in 2023, and builds upon Professor Vernal’s local […]
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The First Fascist
Sergio Luzzatto Harvard University Press, 2026 (US); Penguin Books, 2026 (UK) A vivid biography of the nineteenth-century French-Italian aristocrat Marquis de Morès, the first political leader to master the blend of racialized hatred, cross-class solidarity, and paramilitary violence that Benito Mussolini would call “fascism.”
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Water from the Rock: Black Resistance in a Revolutionary Age
Princeton University Press, 2025
Manisha Sinha wrote the forward of a new edition of Sylvia Frey’s classic Water from the Rock: Black Resistance in a Revolutionary Age published by Princeton University Press in July 2025.
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The Politics of Care Work
Duke University Press, 2025
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