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Contesting State Violence in and Beyond the Archive

June 2, 2020June 1, 2020 Dan Berger

This week we’re revisiting Heather Ann Thompson’s Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy (Pantheon Books, 2016). Today

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Wayward Negro Religions in the 20th Century Slum

May 21, 2020May 17, 2020 Ahmad Greene-Hayes #AAIHSRoundtable, #WaywardLives, black feminism, black intellectual history, Black women, Gender, religion

*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with the Journal of African American History. The beautiful anarchy of

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‘Island on Fire’: A New Book about the Revolt that Ended Slavery in the British Empire

May 15, 2020May 15, 2020 AAIHS Editors black rebellion, Jamaica, slavery

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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Online Roundtable: Saidiya Hartman’s ‘Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments’

May 12, 2020May 11, 2020 AAIHS Editors #AAIHSRoundtable

May 18-22, 2020 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is collaborating with The Journal of African

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Landscape as Witness: Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park

May 6, 2020May 15, 2020 Perri Meldon Harriet Tubman, Historical Memory, museums, slavery, Underground Railroad

In early March 2020, I drove past miles of dredged canals and gangly loblolly pines toward the visitor center of

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