Social Welfare and the Politics of Race in the Post-Civil War South
The policing of Black bodies has become an increasingly visible part of the American landscape, shining light on centuries-long violent
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Black Resistance and Slave Politics in Lowcountry Georgia
Within Lowcountry Georgia, enslaved Africans expressed a determined political will to resist enslavement and maintain dignity. Their dislocation reinforced
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An Ode to Kente Epistemology: Theorizing Black Gay Life
This post is part of our online roundtable on Jafari S. Allen’s There’s a Disco Ball Between Us. I enter Jafari
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Black Women’s Resistance in Slave Rebellions
Surviving Southampton: African American Women and Resistance in Nat Turner’s Community by Vanessa M. Holden, an associate professor of history,
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The Revolutionary Language of Black Abolitionists
In the summer of 1854, a group of free Black men and women from across the United States met in
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