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Remembering Civil Rights Activist Fannie Lou Hamer

October 3, 2022October 3, 2022 Rhonda Y. Williams #AAIHSRoundtable, #UntilIAmFree, Activism, black protest, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, Gender

This post is part of our online roundtable on Keisha N. Blain’s Until I Am Free. Prelude I teach a course

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The International Slave Trade, Colonialism, and Epidemiology

September 26, 2022September 22, 2022 Christopher D. E. Willoughby slave trade, slavery

In Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine, Jim Downs tells a new origin story for epidemiology.

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Lorraine Hansberry and the Praxis of Freedom

September 7, 2022August 30, 2022 Leticia Ridley #RadicalVision, black feminism, Lorraine Hansberry, Playwright

This post is part of our online roundtable on Soyica Diggs Colbert’s Radical Vision How does one sharpen our focus on

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The History of Sexual Policing

August 19, 2022August 12, 2022 Charlotte Rosen #StreetsBelongToUs, Black women, carceral state, Police, prisons, sexual violence

This post is part of our online roundtable on Anne Gray Fischer’s The Streets Belong to Us A few years back,

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The Long Debate Over Critical Race Theory

August 12, 2022August 2, 2022 Lisa A. Monroe black intellectual history, education, race

“Just what is critical race theory and what’s it doing in a nice field like education?” is a question on

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