As campus conversations around hate speech, no-platforming, censorship and safe spaces routinely make newspaper headlines, five Fellows of the British Academy provide their perspectives on the debate.
American literature, history and culture encompassing film, media and memory, with particular focus on activism and social justice in the U.S. South, the civil rights movement and African American freedom struggle
Political thought, institutions, and conflict in 19th and 20th century US; immigration, race, and nationhood in America from founding to present
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