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    The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) is a scholarly organization founded to foster dialogue about researching, writing, and teaching black thought..

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Black Administrative Politics and the Question of the US State

Black Administrative Politics and the Question of the US State

In his book Administering Freedom, labor organizer and historian Dale Kretz asks how formerly enslaved Black people made freedom meaningful through …

The Legal History of Travel Discrimination

The Legal History of Travel Discrimination

Many of us take for granted the ease of our particular American-style mobility. We can go wherever we want to, …

Black Reconstruction in the Twenty-First Century

Black Reconstruction in the Twenty-First Century

Peniel E. Joseph, The Third Reconstruction: America’s Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century. New York: Basic Books, 2022 …

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