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Racism as Theory: A Historiography of White Supremacy Ideology

April 1, 2022April 1, 2022 Bala James Baptiste Historiography, ideology, oppression, race, racism, white supremacy

This historiography theorizes racism as applicable to an explanation of why decision-makers at major white organizations waited until the late

Northern Black People’s Freedom Struggle in the Nineteenth Century

March 21, 2022March 20, 2022 Holly A. Pinheiro, Jr. black lives matter, black protest, Resistance

During the mid-nineteenth-century, Black people collectively fought for racial equality and social justice within the U.S. The scholarship of historians,

State v. Mann: Lydia’s Journey

February 23, 2022February 22, 2022 Sally Greene Black women, Freedom Suits, law, North Carolina, slavery

Naturally, we don’t know her full name. That we know her at all is only because of a gun aimed

The Familial Fight Against Racism

November 17, 2021November 16, 2021 Holly Pinheiro antebellum, Civil War, Gender, labor, Pennsylvania, United States Colored Troops, USCT

The Civil War remains one of the most discussed and published historical topics. Often, public and academic discourse on

Policing Black Freedom

August 5, 2021August 5, 2021 Philip V. McHarris #contestedcitizenship, Activism, police violence, Resistance, slavery, W.E.B. Du Bois, white supremacy

*This post is part of our roundtable on “Contested Citizenship,” organized in collaboration with the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study