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Recovering the History of Black Showgirls in Las Vegas

May 9, 2022May 8, 2022 Su Kim Chung Anna Bailey, Entertainers, Las Vegas, Moulin Rouge, Showgirls

Las Vegas has a long and glamorous entertainment history that evokes images of tuxedo clad crooners, female singers in elegant

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Betting on Black: Gambling and Gaming in the ‘Mississippi of the West’

May 4, 2022May 5, 2022 Kendra Gage, Javon Johnson, and Tyler D. Parry #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackLasVegas, Jim Crow

      In the famous 1954 Ebony article “Negroes can’t win in Las Vegas,” James Goodrich dubbed Sin City

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Black Perspectives Summer Books Preview, Part II

April 28, 2022April 27, 2022 Robert Greene II Civil War, Great Migration, Katrina, Memory, Politics

Yesterday, Black Perspectives published part I of a Summer Books preview, covering a select number of books published in April

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Black Perspectives Summer Books Preview, Part I

April 27, 2022April 26, 2022 Robert Greene II art, black intellectual history, black internationalism, black protest

There are a plethora of books being released this summer which will be of special interest to readers of this

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The Black “New South” in Intellectual History 

April 20, 2022April 21, 2022 Robert Greene II Black New South, Historiography, Intellectual History, New South, South

Atlanta protestors and National Guard at Black Lives Matter protest, Atlanta, June 1, 2020 The idea of the New South

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