‘A White Man Took Her’: Trauma, Loss, and Grief among the Enslaved
In November 1864, a formerly enslaved man named Peter Bumper and his fiance Bucinda Nelson had their marriage registered with
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Occupied Territory: An Author’s Response
*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with the Journal of Civil and Human Rights on Simon Balto’s Occupied Territory: Policing
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The Ungovernable Carceral State
*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with the Journal of Civil and Human Rights on Simon Balto’s Occupied Territory: Policing
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Police Professionalization and the Institutionalization of Racist Repression
*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with the Journal of Civil and Human Rights on Simon Balto’s Occupied Territory: Policing
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Mourning the Loss of My Father: Wynton Marsalis on the Passing of Ellis Marsalis Jr.
*This post appeared on Wynton Marsalis‘ blog and appears here with his permission. My daddy passed away last night (April
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