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A Case for Reparations at the University of Chicago

May 22, 2017December 2, 2017 Guest Poster Chicago, slavery, University of Chicago

Julia Leakes yearned to be reunited with her family.  In 1853, her two sisters showed up for sale along with

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Online Roundtable: Gerald Horne’s Black Radical History

May 14, 2017June 5, 2017 AAIHS Editors #Horne

June 5–10, 2017 Black Perspectives is hosting an online roundtable on Gerald Horne’s wide-ranging scholarly contributions to African American history

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Masterless Men: A New Book on Poor Whites and Slavery

May 8, 2017May 13, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi capitalism, slavery, South

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

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Fugitive Science: A New Book on Scientific Racism in America

May 6, 2017May 9, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi black intellectual history, Frederick Douglass, racism, racist ideas

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

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Black Rage at the Organization of American Historians

May 6, 2017May 10, 2017 Guy Emerson Mount black intellectual history, police violence, Racial Violence, violence

The theme of this year’s Organization of American Historians conference in New Orleans was circulation. For black communities beyond academia,

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