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Identity and Culture in Roman Africa: An Interview with Jennifer A. Rea

November 24, 2017November 27, 2017 Julian Chambliss #comicsandrace, africa, classics, comic books, Gender, intersectionality

In his recent post “African American and the Classics: An Introduction,” David Withun highlighted the problem posed by the assumption

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The Weeping Time: A New Book on the Largest Slave Auction

November 20, 2017November 22, 2017 Julie Hawks Butler Plantation, slave auctions

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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Chocolate City: A New Book on Race and Democracy in Washington, D.C.

November 18, 2017November 20, 2017 Julie Hawks Washington DC

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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African Americans’ Civil Cases in the Jim Crow South

November 17, 2017November 20, 2017 Melissa Milewski economic justice, Jim Crow, law, race, South

In 1910, 48-year-old Rebecca Sallee fell into an open hole on a city street in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, as she made

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African American Freedom and the Illusive “Forty Acres and a Mule”

November 16, 2017November 17, 2017 Karen Cook Bell economic justice, landownership, race, racism, reconstruction, Resistance, South

On August 18, 2016, the United Nations Working Group on Experts of People of African Descent determined that the history

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