The Lexicon Origins of People of Color
The term “people of color” is in a strange place in its evolution as part of the American lexicon. The
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Race
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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CFP: Black Intellectuals and the Crisis of Democracy
Since the founding of the United States, Black intellectuals have questioned the limits of American democracy. While in the past
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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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