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Race, Property, and Economic History: An Introduction

November 27, 2017November 30, 2017 Walter Greason economic justice, Race and Economic History, Racial Capitalism

This post is the introduction to our online forum on Race, Property, and Economic History. What is erasure? How have Black residents been historically

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Radical Intellect: A New Book on Liberator Magazine

November 22, 2017November 25, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi black, Black Arts Movement, Black Power

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

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Interracial Intimacy and Film as Social Commentary

November 18, 2017November 22, 2017 Matthew Teutsch film, Interracial relationships, masculinity

Fifty years ago, the Supreme Court struck down anti-miscegenation laws in Loving v. Virginia. In 1969, the first interracial sex scene

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Chocolate City: A New Book on Race and Democracy in Washington, D.C.

November 18, 2017November 20, 2017 Julie Hawks Washington DC

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

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Black Women’s Voices and the Archive

November 15, 2017November 17, 2017 Halee Robinson archives, Belle Meade Plantation, Black women, Public History, slavery, violence

In 1886, Charles Dudley Warner, a Massachusetts-born writer, traveled to Nashville, Tennessee to learn about the Southern way of life.

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