The “Woman’s Rights” Man: A New Book on Women in Frederick Douglass’s World
This post is part of my blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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Black history
Historical Amnesia and the Burden of the Euro-American Past in the Age of Trump
In the last 100 days since he began his presidency, President Trump’s administration has unleashed a powerful nativist movement anchored
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Rosa Parks and the Image of Respectability
This post is part of our online roundtable on Black Women and the Politics of Respectability. Since the day she
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Zoologist Roger Arliner Young and the Politics of Respectability
This post is part of our online roundtable on Black Women and the Politics of Respectability. More than fifty years
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Race, Media, and Black Womanhood in the Early Twentieth Century
This post is part of our online roundtable on Black Women and the Politics of Respectability. The politics of respectability
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