Beyond Romantic Advertisements: Ancestry.com, Genealogy, and White Supremacy
Ancestry.com has recently come under a lot of well-deserved criticism for whitewashing slavery with a new advertisement that portrays an
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Slavery
Lupe Fiasco’s “Manillas” and the Material Culture of Anti-Black Violence
In Lupe Fiasco’s seventh album, Droga’s Wave, he unveils how the historic legacies of transatlantic slavery connect with contemporary Black
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Reclaiming Intimate Histories in the Americas
Sexuality and Slavery: Reclaiming Intimate Histories in the Americas, co-edited by Daina Ramey Berry and Leslie M. Harris, is a
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Frederick Douglass and the Periodization of Reconstruction
*This post is part of the online forum on The Futures of Frederick Douglass. The contributions in this forum each
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Toward a Synchronic Reading of Frederick Douglass
*This post is part of the online forum on The Futures of Frederick Douglass. The contributions in this forum each
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