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Black Historians, Race, and the Historical Profession

August 23, 2022August 21, 2022 Hettie Williams black intellectual history, education, teaching, W.E.B. Du Bois

“History must restore what slavery took away, for it is the social damage of slavery that the present generations must

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Sex Wars and the Consolidation of Police Power

August 17, 2022August 12, 2022 Jessica R. Pliley #StreetsBelongToUs, black feminism, carceral state, feminism, Police

This post is part of our online roundtable on Anne Gray Fischer’s The Streets Belong to Us As other writers in

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How Policing Black Women’s Bodies Built the Modern City

August 15, 2022August 11, 2022 Simon Balto #AAIHSRoundtable, #StreetsBelongToUs, black protest, Black women, sexuality

This post is part of our online roundtable on Anne Gray Fischer’s The Streets Belong to Us In a statement both

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Online Roundtable–Anne Gray Fischer’s ‘The Streets Belong To Us’

August 9, 2022August 10, 2022 AAIHS Editors #StreetsBelongToUs, carceral state, policing

August 15-22, 2022 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is collaborating with the Journal of Urban

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Black Women’s Reproductive Health and Legacies of Distrust

August 3, 2022August 3, 2022 Elise A. Mitchell #ReproductiveRights, African Diaspora, Haiti, reproductive justice, slavery

This post is part of our forum on “Black Women and Reproductive Rights.” The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn

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