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Black Gay History and the Fight Against AIDS

December 23, 2017December 29, 2017 Dan Royles Harlem Renaissance, homoeroticism, sexuality

During the 1980s and 1990s, African American AIDS activists used Black gay history as a tool in the fight against AIDS.

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History, Memory, and Gentrification

December 12, 2017December 18, 2017 Celeste Henery economic justice, gentrification, Historical Memory, race, racism, South

I spent my Sundays in November photographing in Clarksville—a neighborhood in Austin, Texas, which was founded by freedpeople after the

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How Gentrification and Displacement Are Remaking Boston

November 28, 2017December 2, 2017 Zebulon Miletsky and Tomas Gonzalez Boston, gentrification, Race and Economic History, segregation

This post is part of our online forum on Race, Property, and Economic History. Ask anyone in Boston, “what’s going on in Roxbury?”

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Online Forum: Race, Property, and Economic History

November 12, 2017November 27, 2017 AAIHS Editors economic justice, Race and Economic History, Racial Capitalism, wealth

Black Perspectives, the blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum on Race, Property, and Economic History. The forum begins

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Writing Antiracism in Cuba: An Author’s Response

November 11, 2017November 20, 2017 Devyn Spence Benson #AntiracismInCuba, Cuba

This post is part of our online roundtable on Devyn Spence Benson’s Antiracism in Cuba. I still remember the first paper I wrote

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