An Intellectual History of a Book Title: Stamped from the Beginning
The main title for my new book, Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, originated
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The ‘Capitalized Womb’: A Review of Ned and Constance Sublette’s The American Slave Coast
Recently, I was asked to sit on a panel at the CUNY Graduate Center to discuss Ned & Constance Sublette’s
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Warning this post contains spoilers I first heard about WGN America’s Underground back in October, shortly after I started working
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The Bonds of History
In recent years, Whitney Plantation has been transformed into a site for the memory of African enslavement in American and
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On September 18, 1857, Conrad Deisenoth became a citizen of the United States. This print, held at the Library Company
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