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Categorization for Commodification: Racial Control in Colonial America

March 6, 2020March 1, 2020 Shaquan McDowell Historical Memory, Interracial relationships, race, racism, slavery, white supremacy

There is difficulty in formalizing the lines of the African American category: who falls within its brackets and whose history

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A Political Education: An Author’s Response

February 28, 2020February 23, 2020 Elizabeth Todd-Breland #AAIHSRoundtable, #APoliticalEducation, Activism, Black women, education, education reform, organizing, teaching

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Elizabeth Todd-Breland’s A Political Education: Black Politics and Education Reform in Chicago Since

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Corporate Imperialism vs. Black (Educational) Liberation

February 24, 2020February 23, 2020 Jarvis R. Givens #AAIHSRoundtable, #APoliticalEducation, Activism, Black political thought, capitalism, education, education reform, imperialism

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Elizabeth Todd-Breland’s A Political Education: Black Politics and Education Reform in Chicago Since

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Black Banking and Women Financial Power Brokers

February 20, 2020February 16, 2020 Brandon K. Winford Black women, capitalism, Jim Crow, Race and Economic History, Racial Capitalism

In Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal, Shennette Garrett-Scott offers a compelling narrative that

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In Pursuit of Knowledge: A New Book about Black Women’s Educational Activism

February 14, 2020February 9, 2020 AAIHS Editors Activism, black intellectual history, Black women, education, Resistance

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

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