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Designing A Textbook-Free Course on African American History

August 6, 2020August 5, 2020 Tyler Parry education, teaching

Last fall, I decided not to assign a textbook for my African American history survey course, and elected to make

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The Everyday Black Life of Abolition

August 5, 2020August 12, 2020 Celeste Winston maroons, policing, Prison Abolition, social justice

The summer of 2020 has seen extraordinary uprisings against policing in the United States. An estimated 15 to 26 million

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A New Book on Plantation Coffee in Jamaica, 1790-1848

July 31, 2020July 31, 2020 AAIHS Editors economic history, Jamaica, slavery

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

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Prophetic Black Ecologies: Liberatory Agriculture on Beulah Land Farms

July 27, 2020July 26, 2020 Priscilla McCutcheon #BlackEcologies, Black church, Black Ecologies, black nationalism, Deep South, freedom, geography, Georgia, landownership, religion, Resistance, self-determination, slavery, South

*This post is part of our series on Black Ecologies edited by Justin Hosbey, Leah Kaplan, & J.T. Roane. “The forced planting

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The World That Fear Made: A New Book on Slave Revolts and Conspiracies in Early America

July 24, 2020July 23, 2020 AAIHS Editors slavery, South, white supremacy

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

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