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On the Making and Timely Re-Release of Reluctant Reformers

August 11, 2021August 9, 2021 Say Burgin Activism, black intellectual history, Black Power, usable past

In 1974, Howard University Press published a powerful book documenting how racist ideas and practices incapacitated the US’s most historically

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The Black Roots of “Rights and Privileges”

August 6, 2021August 6, 2021 Kerri Greenidge #AAIHSRoundtable, #contestedcitizenship, Anti-Lynching, black politics, human rights, race

“This post is part of our roundtable on “Contested Citizenship,” organized in collaboration with the Gilder Lehrman Center for the

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Policing Black Freedom

August 5, 2021August 5, 2021 Philip V. McHarris #contestedcitizenship, Activism, police violence, Resistance, slavery, W.E.B. Du Bois, white supremacy

*This post is part of our roundtable on “Contested Citizenship,” organized in collaboration with the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study

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Allegiance, Birthright, and Race in America

August 4, 2021August 3, 2021 William Darity Jr. and Charles Ali Bey #contestedcitizenship, civil rights, race, slavery, South

“This post is part of our roundtable on “Contested Citizenship,” organized in collaboration with the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study

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George Hackett, Baltimore’s Birthright Citizen

August 3, 2021August 3, 2021 Martha S. Jones #AAIHSRoundtable, #contestedcitizenship, black politics

*This post is part of our roundtable on “Contested Citizenship,” organized in collaboration with the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study

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