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How is Woody Guthrie, who openly associated with communist groups and supported unionizing, perceived in later more right-leaning country music mileus?

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How socially violent was the change from pre-Christianity to Christianity in Scandinavia and do we know what "kind" of Christianity was preached in the stave churches?

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Is there consensus within the historical community whether to refer to enslaved black Americans as "slaves" or "enslaved"?

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Considering that most slaves were barred from reading and writing in English, was there any proliferation of written West African languages among slaves in America?

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When and why did Black feminist theories/scholarship begin to be taken seriously as a part of the Black radical tradition?

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How is Woody Guthrie, who openly associated with communist groups and supported unionizing, perceived in later more right-leaning country music mileus?	462
How socially violent was the change from pre-Christianity to Christianity in Scandinavia and do we know what "kind" of Christianity was preached in the stave churches?	138
Is there consensus within the historical community whether to refer to enslaved black Americans as "slaves" or "enslaved"?	28
Considering that most slaves were barred from reading and writing in English, was there any proliferation of written West African languages among slaves in America?	16
When and why did Black feminist theories/scholarship begin to be taken seriously as a part of the Black radical tradition?	6