Search Results for: Civil War

The Racial Geography of Universities

June 3, 2019May 30, 2019 Celeste Henery black intellectual history, black politics, education, geography, pedagogy, race, Resistance, teaching

What does it mean to learn how to read a place? This question silently guides the Racial Geography Tour of

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Frederick Douglass’s Life and Labors

May 29, 2019May 21, 2019 Christopher Bonner Activism, black politics, black protest, Frederick Douglass, race, Resistance, slavery

“SLAVE-children are children,” Frederick Douglass wrote in his 1855 autobiography My Bondage and My Freedom. David Blight’s new study of

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Affluence and Community at the Madam C. J. Walker Manufacturing Company

May 23, 2019May 19, 2019 Paul R. Mullins #WalkerCentennial, Activism, black politics, Black women, civil rights, Madam CJ Walker, Resistance

*This post is part of our online forum on Madam C.J. Walker for the centennial anniversary of her death.  In

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Beyond Romantic Advertisements: Ancestry.com, Genealogy, and White Supremacy

May 10, 2019May 7, 2019 Adam H. Domby Historical Memory, primary source, racism, slavery

Ancestry.com has recently come under a lot of well-deserved criticism for whitewashing slavery with a new advertisement that portrays an

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Deferred Freedom Dreams in the Quest for Black Economic Citizenship

May 8, 2019May 8, 2019 Westenley Alcenat Constitution, economic justice, law, Racial Capitalism, slavery

A little more than 153 years ago, in the aftermath of the Civil War, Radical Republicans in the United States

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