What is “Freedom” in the Black Freedom Struggle?
Freedom is at the center of the Black freedom struggle. The Strange Career of Jim Crow, The Strange Careers of the Jim
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Movie Theaters, the Urban North, and Policing the Color Line
While America’s urban areas witnessed a massive boom in the popularity of motion pictures and moviegoing in the early twentieth
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Black Administrative Politics and the Question of the US State
In his book Administering Freedom, labor organizer and historian Dale Kretz asks how formerly enslaved Black people made freedom meaningful through
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Womanist Theology and A Black Woman’s Intellectual Movement
This post is part of our forum on “Womanist Theology.“ My grandmother stood neither silent nor conspicuous in her daily
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The Legal History of Travel Discrimination
Many of us take for granted the ease of our particular American-style mobility. We can go wherever we want to,
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