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Visualizing the End of Human Captivity

October 23, 2020October 23, 2020 Felicia Denaud art, book review, carceral state, police violence, prisons, race, violence

What happens to contemporary art when we foreground conditions in which expressive autonomy incites repression, surveillance, and severe punishment? What

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The Links Between Policing and Environmental Justice

September 28, 2020September 27, 2020 Teona Williams #BlackEcologies, Chicago, police brutality, police violence, University of Chicago

*This post is part of our new series on Black Ecologies edited by Justin Hosbey, Leah Kaplan, & J.T. Roane. At 10:15

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Eric Williams’ ‘Capitalism and Slavery’ and the Archive of Freedom

September 23, 2020September 22, 2020 Natasha Lightfoot #CapitalismandSlavery, Black women, Caribbean, slavery

*This essay is part of our online forum on Eric Williams’ Capitalism and Slavery (1944), organized by historian Sasha Turner. The forum is in

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Eric Williams’ Foundational Work on Slavery, Industry, and Wealth

September 21, 2020September 13, 2020 Katie Donington #CapitalismandSlavery, slavery, wealth

*This essay is part of our online forum on Eric Williams’ Capitalism and Slavery (1944), organized by historian Sasha Turner.

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Online Forum: Eric Williams’ ‘Capitalism and Slavery’

September 10, 2020September 17, 2020 AAIHS Editors #CapitalismandSlavery

September 21–25, 2020 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), will host an online forum on

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