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Race, Medicine, and the Origins of American Psychiatry

September 8, 2020September 17, 2020 Natalie Shibley race, Racial Violence, South, teaching

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, American physicians developed and promoted biological notions of racial difference that have

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Afropessimism’s Contributions to Black Studies

September 4, 2020September 17, 2020 Joseph Winters Afro-pessimism

According to Frank Wilderson, Afropessimism contends that “Blacks are not Human subjects, but are instead structurally inert props, implements for

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Contagions of Empire: A New Book on Racism, Sexuality, and Black Military Workers

September 1, 2020August 28, 2020 Tyler Parry black internationalism, labor, military

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

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The Roots of the ‘Imprisoned Black Radical Tradition’

August 24, 2020August 24, 2020 Stephen Wilson, Dylan Rodríguez, Joy James et. al. IBRT

*This interview is part of our online forum on ‘The Imprisoned Black Radical Tradition,’ organized by Stephen Wilson and Garrett

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The Role of Violence in the Abolitionist Movement

August 19, 2020August 19, 2020 Mike Jirik slavery, violence

On September 11 1851, George Ford, Nelson Ford, Noah Buley, and Joshua Hammond arrived at William and Eliza Parker’s home

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