Search Results for: slavery

Interrogating the Master Narrative of “My Family’s Slave”

June 2, 2017June 6, 2017 Premilla Nadasen Activism, racism, Resistance, slavery

Alex Tizon’s widely acclaimed article in The Atlantic about his family’s horrific abuse and exploitation of a domestic worker has

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Measuring Racial Progress, Past and Present

June 1, 2017June 3, 2017 Greg Laski democracy, W.E.B. Du Bois

If the November 2008 election of Barack Obama to the presidency provided an occasion to measure the distance the United

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Beyond Respectability: A New Book on Black Female Public Intellectuals

May 30, 2017June 2, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi black intellectual history, Black women, Gender, review of black women's intellectual history

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

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A Civil Rights Protest Is Happening Right Now in Colombia

May 25, 2017May 30, 2017 Yesenia Barragan Colombia

As of May 10, thousands in the majority-Black department of Chocó in the northwestern corridor of the Colombian Pacific are

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A Case for Reparations at the University of Chicago

May 22, 2017December 2, 2017 Guest Poster Chicago, slavery, University of Chicago

Julia Leakes yearned to be reunited with her family.  In 1853, her two sisters showed up for sale along with

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