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Zora Neale Hurston’s ‘Barracoon’ and Africatown’s Sister Settlement

July 25, 2018July 31, 2018 Sharla M. Fett literature, slave trade, slavery, Zora Neale Hurston

More than ninety years after Zora Neale Hurston first met Cudjo Lewis, her manuscript Barracoon has finally been published. Hurston encountered

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State Violence and Pregnant Black Mothers

July 24, 2018July 26, 2018 Marlo David Black women, carceral state, Gender, motherhood, police violence

For Black women, pregnancy presents a multiplying set of vulnerabilities which illuminate the intersectional frames of race, gender, and class

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Migrant Children and Family Separation in the United States

July 16, 2018July 20, 2018 Westenley Alcenat Haiti, Racial Violence, racism, slavery, white supremacy

American nationalism, like all other nationalisms, is an imagined concept of belonging and community. In this regard, it is not

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Sandra Bland, Black Women, and Texas Law Enforcement

July 13, 2018July 16, 2018 Tyina Steptoe #SandraBlandForum, #sayhername, police brutality, police violence, Sandra Bland

This post is part of our online forum in honor of Sandra Bland, coinciding with the third anniversary of her death. The forum includes

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Black Resistance to Segregation in the Nineteenth Century

July 5, 2018July 9, 2018 Jessica Parr Black women, law, New York, segregation

In 1852, the Third Avenue Railroad Company was founded. It ran between City Hall and 62nd Street in Manhattan. Its

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