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Activism and “Good Trouble” in the March Trilogy

December 14, 2016December 13, 2016 Leah Milne #comicsandrace, comic books

This guest post is part of our new blog series on Comics, Race, and Society, edited by Julian Chambliss and

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Gender, Slavery, and the Archive in Cuba: An Interview with Aisha Finch

December 12, 2016December 11, 2016 Reena Goldthree black politics, Cuba, slavery

This month, I interviewed Aisha Finch about her new book, Rethinking Slave Rebellion in Cuba: La Escalera and the Insurgencies

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Private, Public, and Vigilante Violence in Slave Societies, Part 2

December 11, 2016December 10, 2016 Keri Leigh Merritt criminal justice system, Deep South

This essay is Part Two of a four-part series concerning the triumvirate of violence in slave societies. The first part

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Demystifying the 13th Amendment and Its Impact on Mass Incarceration

December 9, 2016December 8, 2016 Patrick Rael 13th Amendment, emancipation, mass incarceration

We’re learning a lot these days about the historical roots of mass incarceration. Michelle Alexander’s wildly successful book, The New

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The American Revolution, Race, and the Failed Beginning of a Nation

December 7, 2016December 6, 2016 Chernoh Sesay Jr. Donald Trump, emancipation, law, racism, slavery

Although forms of systemic racism had certainly not gone away prior to Donald Trump’s election, that so many Americans voted

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