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Towards Usable Histories of the Black Commons

Since the 1980s, policymakers have extended the market logics of risk and profit to encompass all the basic necessities for

“Power concedes nothing without demand,” argued Frederick Douglass in one of his most cited speeches. “It never did and it

This is an edited excerpt of an interview I conducted with Charlie Cobb in October 2015. Perhaps best known as

March 6–11, 2017 Black Perspectives is hosting an online roundtable on Sowande’ Mustakeem’s Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the

From the eighteenth century to our own time, a range of African Americans have traveled “back” to Africa in hopes