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Allegiance, Birthright, and Race in America

August 4, 2021August 3, 2021 William Darity Jr. and Charles Ali Bey #contestedcitizenship, civil rights, race, slavery, South

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

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Biographies of Women and Emancipation in the Americas

February 11, 2021February 11, 2021 Vanessa M. Holden Activism, African Diaspora, Black women, Gender, Resistance

Last fall, many people waited anxiously for the results of the U. S. elections. From Tuesday, November 3rd through Saturday,

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Categorization for Commodification: Racial Control in Colonial America

March 6, 2020March 1, 2020 Shaquan McDowell Historical Memory, Interracial relationships, race, racism, slavery, white supremacy

There is difficulty in formalizing the lines of the African American category: who falls within its brackets and whose history

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Blackness, Freedom, and the Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana

February 5, 2020February 5, 2020 Karen Cook Bell citizenship, Cuba, freedom, law, Louisiana, Virginia

Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana radically reorients our perspective on Blackness and slavery

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Black Patriotism and Black Death in the Aftermath of the American Revolution

October 16, 2019October 9, 2019 Adam McNeil black soldiers, capitalism, freedom, military, race, Racial Capitalism, slavery

On June 15, 1776, Lucretia Pritchett petitioned the Virginia Convention seeking reparations for the deceased enslaved man over whom she

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