Toward the Preservation of Black Joy in Public Memory
Representations of Black experiences remain frustratingly narrow in public commemoration efforts across the U.S. For many decades, and especially in
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Mourning
The International Slave Trade, Colonialism, and Epidemiology
In Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine, Jim Downs tells a new origin story for epidemiology.
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#BuffaloSyllabus
This post is part of our online roundtable on “Black Buffalo” When the national attention shifted elsewhere and the media was no
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Black Buffalo, Food Apartheid, and Residential Segregation
This post is part of our online roundtable on “Black Buffalo.” On the afternoon of May 14, 2022, I was sitting
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How Public Policy Shaped Buffalo’s Segregated Geography
This post is part of our forum on “Black Buffalo.” Click here to view the author’s maps of Buffalo. An
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