Black Subjectivity and the Origins of American Gynecology
In her new award-winning book, Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology, historian Deirdre Cooper Owens describes
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Black history
Crispus Attucks, American Revolutionary Hero: An Interview with Mitch Kachun
In today’s post, historian Stephen G. Hall, Fellow at the National Humanities Center, interviews Mitch Kachun on his new book First Martyr of
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Diaspora as Praxis: Building Black Consciousness in Buenos Aires
Located in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Villa Crespo, the newly minted Espacio Malcolm–named after Malcolm X and also known
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Chocolate Cities: A New Book on the Black Map of American Life
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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Writing on Women and the Nation of Islam: An Author’s Response
This post is part of our online roundtable on Ula Taylor’s The Promise of Patriarchy I am so very humbled by
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