Mapping a Plan for Reparations in the Twenty-First Century
As the U.S. reckons with systemic racism in the wake of global protests over the murder of George Floyd, Breonna
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Online Forum: Eric Williams’ ‘Capitalism and Slavery’
September 21–25, 2020 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), will host an online forum on
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Revisiting Lerone Bennett Jr.’s ‘Forced Into Glory’
The work of popular historian Lerone Bennett Jr. falls within a longer ‘anti-Lincoln tradition’ of African American intellectual thought–a tradition
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Race, Medicine, and the Origins of American Psychiatry
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, American physicians developed and promoted biological notions of racial difference that have
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The Black Freedom Struggle of the North
Historians have produced a remarkable body of literature reappraising the civil rights movement in the last two decades. And still,
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