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The Lexicon Origins of People of Color

September 27, 2022September 25, 2022 Warren Milteer, Jr. black intellectual history, race

The term “people of color” is in a strange place in its evolution as part of the American lexicon. The

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The International Slave Trade, Colonialism, and Epidemiology

September 26, 2022September 22, 2022 Christopher D. E. Willoughby slave trade, slavery

In Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine, Jim Downs tells a new origin story for epidemiology.

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Teaching Massacres and Black History

September 13, 2022September 8, 2022 Steve Peraza #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackBuffalo, Racial Violence

This post is part of our online roundtable on “Black Buffalo” As a professor of history at Buffalo State College, the

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Documenting Environmental Racism

August 26, 2022August 21, 2022 E. James West DOCUMERICA, environment, Environmental Racism, photography, urban history

There’s a good reason why I’ve focused on the work of Chicago-based Black photojournalist John H. White during the first

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Reproductive Rights, Slavery, and ‘Dobbs v. Jackson’

August 2, 2022August 2, 2022 Jennifer L. Morgan

This post is part of our forum on “Black Women and Reproductive Rights.” In 1662, the Virginia legislature cast a

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