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An Environmental History of Slavery: An Interview with David Silkenat

March 7, 2023March 5, 2023 Adam McNeil slavery, South

In today’s post, Adam X. McNeil, a regular contributor of Black Perspectives, interviews Dr. David Silkenat on his new book,

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Black Women and the Racialization of Infanticide

March 2, 2023March 1, 2023 Rebekka Michaelsen Black women, Infanticide, Margaret Garner, Pregnancy, Reproductive Rights, Women

“Knowledge of the human body constituted a form of property as important – or even more important than – the

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Rosewood Massacre at 100: Black Florida History and White Terror

February 27, 2023February 26, 2023 Dan Royles Racial Violence, racism

A version of the following comments was delivered at the opening of the exhibit An Elegy to Rosewood at the

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John Hope Franklin and WWII as a Crisis of Democracy

January 19, 2023January 13, 2023 Thomas Cryer #BlackIntellectualDemocracy, black intellectuals, Historians, John Hope Franklin, World War II

This post is part of our forum on Black Intellectuals and the Crisis of Democracy. Since its 1947 publication, extensive literature

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James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, and the Ever-Deferred Dream

January 17, 2023January 17, 2023 Amy Kittelstrom #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackIntellectualDemocracy, black intellectual history

This post is part of our forum on Black Intellectuals and the Crisis of Democracy. Once Africans began being forced onto

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