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Slavery, the Plantation Myth, and Alternative Facts

December 6, 2017December 14, 2017 Tyler Parry slavery, South

Earlier this year, NBC journalist Chuck Todd pressed  the Counselor to the US President, Kellyanne Conway, to explain spurious claims made

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A Discourse on Race and Inequality in the United States

November 30, 2017December 4, 2017 Kasturi "Rumu" DasGupta economic justice, prisons, Race and Economic History, segregation, slavery

This post is part of our online forum on Race, Property, and Economic History. The U.S. Census Bureau reported in early September (2017) that

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Identity and Culture in Roman Africa: An Interview with Jennifer A. Rea

November 24, 2017November 27, 2017 Julian Chambliss #comicsandrace, africa, classics, comic books, Gender, intersectionality

In his recent post “African American and the Classics: An Introduction,” David Withun highlighted the problem posed by the assumption

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The Weeping Time: A New Book on the Largest Slave Auction

November 20, 2017November 22, 2017 Julie Hawks Butler Plantation, slave auctions

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

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African American Freedom and the Illusive “Forty Acres and a Mule”

November 16, 2017November 17, 2017 Karen Cook Bell economic justice, landownership, race, racism, reconstruction, Resistance, South

On August 18, 2016, the United Nations Working Group on Experts of People of African Descent determined that the history

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