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The Myth of Black Immunity: Racialized Disease during the COVID-19 Pandemic

April 3, 2020April 2, 2020 Chelsey Carter & Ezelle Sanford III medical racism, pandemic

As the novel coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic sweeps across the world, troubling associations between race and disease have gone viral.

Black Bourgeois: A New Book about the Dilemma of Black Middle-Class Embodiment in the Post-Civil Rights Era

April 3, 2020April 1, 2020 AAIHS Editors class, embodiment, literature, Performance

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

(In)Articulate while Black

April 2, 2020March 29, 2020 Yannick Marshall blackness, literacy, race, racism

I imagine that there are people who believe that Black people are too sensitive. When Blacks are called “well-spoken,” or

Runaway Genres and the Global Legacy of Slavery

April 1, 2020March 29, 2020 Iana Robitaille literature, slavery

In her sweeping monograph Runaway Genres: The Global Afterlives of Slavery, Yogita Goyal takes up the legacy of the American

Zoombombing University Lectures Brings Racism Home

March 31, 2020March 31, 2020 Oneka LaBennett pedagogy, Racial Violence, racism, white supremacy

Recently, Zoom classes held by professors at the University of Southern California (USC) and other schools were violently disrupted by “Zoombombers” who