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Black Women Hustling off The Grid: An Author’s Response

September 10, 2016September 4, 2016 LaShawn Harris Black women, Harlem, New York

Today is the final day of our roundtable on LaShawn Harris’s new book, Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black

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Shifting Ground: Writing Working-Class Black Women’s History from Below

September 8, 2016September 3, 2016 Talitha LeFlouria Black women, Harlem, New York

Today is the fourth day of our roundtable on LaShawn Harris’s new book, Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black

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The Surprising Role of Race in the History of Gubernatorial Impeachment

August 31, 2016August 31, 2016 Patrick Rael reconstruction

Once again, Maine Governor Paul LePage is in trouble, and race is at the heart of the matter.  The Governor’s

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Dark Work: A New Book on the Business of Slavery in Rhode Island

August 30, 2016January 1, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi capitalism, slavery

This post is part of a new and recurring blog series I am editing, which announces the publication of selected

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Trump Syllabus 2.0: A Supplementary Reading List

August 5, 2016August 2, 2016 Stephen G. Hall Donald Trump, Trumpism

This supplementary reading list is designed to augment the Trump Syllabus 2.0 by N.D.B. Connolly and Keisha N. Blain. In

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