Overseer Violence on Eighteenth Century Plantations
For scholars of eighteenth-century North American slavery, the rise of the plantation-complex grounds many of the field’s central questions. When
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Racism
Occupied Territory: A New Book about Policing and Black Chicago
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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Luke Cage and the History of Medical Exploitation
The first story arc in David Walker’s Luke Cage run, “Sins of the Father,” sees Cage headed to New Orleans to attend
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Black Feminist Alchemy, Reproductive Justice, and the Carceral State
In the poem “Revolution is One Form of Social Change,” Audre Lorde describes patriarchy as the foundation of the inequality
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Untangling Madam C.J. Walker’s Story
*This post is part of our online forum on Madam C.J. Walker for the centennial anniversary of her death. As
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