White Supremacy Is Not an Illness
*Co-Authored by Christopher Petrella and Justin Gomer A few weeks ago, we convened and moderated a “justice and equity” reading
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“We Need Your Freedom”: An Interview with Alexis Pauline Gumbs
This week, I had the pleasure of interviewing Alexis Pauline Gumbs on her new book Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity
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Introducing “Black Perspectives”
Dear readers, Thank you all for enthusiastically supporting the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS). The blog has been doing
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Private, Public, and Vigilante Violence in Slave Societies, Part 2
This essay is Part Two of a four-part series concerning the triumvirate of violence in slave societies. The first part
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Demystifying the 13th Amendment and Its Impact on Mass Incarceration
We’re learning a lot these days about the historical roots of mass incarceration. Michelle Alexander’s wildly successful book, The New
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