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Blog Announcements: New Editing Team

August 10, 2020August 9, 2020 AAIHS Editors

The editing team of Black Perspectives is excited to embark on a new academic year! Thank you for supporting us over

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More than Diversity— A Call to Action from University of Chicago Faculty

August 6, 2020August 6, 2020 AAIHS Editors abolition, Activism, black protest, boycott, education, reparations, Resistance, strike

This abridged document has been edited for brevity.  The full letter can be read here. To pledge your support for

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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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