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From Police Power to Police Practice

August 18, 2022August 12, 2022 DeAnza A. Cook #StreetsBelongToUs, Black women, carceral state, Police, prisons

This post is part of our online roundtable on Anne Gray Fischer’s The Streets Belong to Us The United States of

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The Sexual Criminalization of Black Women

August 16, 2022August 12, 2022 Keona K. Ervin #AAIHSRoundtable, #StreetsBelongToUs, Black women, carceral state, Gender, sexuality

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

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The Long Debate Over Critical Race Theory

August 12, 2022August 2, 2022 Lisa A. Monroe black intellectual history, education, race

“Just what is critical race theory and what’s it doing in a nice field like education?” is a question on

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Utopia in Dark Times

August 10, 2022August 2, 2022 Victoria W. Wolcott race, religion

In this turbulent historical moment, I find myself often reflecting on Octavia Butler’s 1993 novel Parable of the Sower . Butler

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Call for Submissions: The Significance of the Black Family in the US

August 10, 2022August 10, 2022 AAIHS Editors Marriage

“For generations the [Black] family has remained an important cauldron of resistance, forging and preserving a vital legacy of collective

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