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The American Dream and the Urban Crisis

March 8, 2021March 19, 2021 Julia Rabig #RaceForProfit, Black women, capitalism, civil rights, economic history, Gender, housing, race, racism, segregation, urban history

*This post is part of our roundtable on Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s ‘Race for Profit’ For decades, historians have chronicled manifestations of systemic

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How State Surveillance Undermines Black Freedom Movements

March 5, 2021March 5, 2021 Nishani Frazier Black Power, carceral state, Malcolm X

Ray Wood was known to me only in family lore I’d forgotten. CORE scholar L. E. J. Rachell and James

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Black Women Have Shaped Politics in Boston for Centuries

March 4, 2021March 3, 2021 Kabria Baumgartner

Kim Janey will probably vacate her position as president of the Boston City Council to become the city’s acting mayor.

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Online Roundtable: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s ‘Race for Profit’

March 3, 2021March 7, 2021 AAIHS Editors #RaceForProfit

March 8-12, 2021 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting a roundtable on Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s

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Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World

February 26, 2021February 21, 2021 Robert D. Taber African Diaspora, archives, black feminism, Black women, Gender, race, slave trade, slavery

Trite historical surveys of the Black experience in the United States will feature questions of identity politics (Combahee River Collective

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