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The Politics of Poor Whiteness

March 6, 2018March 11, 2018 Jeff Forret #MasterlessMen, capitalism, electoral politics, slavery, South, white supremacy

*This post is part of our roundtable on Keri Leigh Merritt’s Masterless Men. Occasionally a book comes along at a timely historical moment.

Antebellum Law and the Southern Justice System

March 6, 2018March 11, 2018 Michael Landis #MasterlessMen, slavery, South

*This post is part of our roundtable on Keri Leigh Merritt’s Masterless Men. I must confess from the outset that I never had

Why White Southern Conservatives Need to Defend Confederate Monuments

March 3, 2018March 5, 2018 William Sturkey civil rights, South, white supremacy

Modern debates over Confederate monuments are not merely concerned with culture, historical memory, or racism. For many monument defenders, there

Gender, Civil Rights, and the Case of Odell Waller

February 26, 2018March 1, 2018 Karen Cook Bell Black women, Jim Crow, law, poverty, violence

Pauli Murray is a central figure of women’s activism. Her career spanned five decades and included work in the labor

Online Roundtable: Keri Leigh Merritt’s “Masterless Men”

February 26, 2018March 11, 2018 AAIHS Editors #MasterlessMen, slavery

March 5-9, 2018 Black Perspectives, the blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting a roundtable on Keri Leigh Merritt’s Masterless Men: Poor