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Looking Back: Convict Leasing and the Trusty System

January 14, 2021January 11, 2021 Charlene J. Fletcher #WeAreNotSlaves, carceral state, mass incarceration, prisons, sexuality

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Robert T. Chase’s We Are Not Slaves. Over the past four

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Medicalizing Black Military Service in an Age of Global Imperialism

January 4, 2021January 3, 2021 Christopher D. E. Willoughby book review, medical racism, military, race, racism, sexuality

At the turn of twentieth century, universities in the United States began founding schools of tropical medicine. Schools like Harvard

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The Best Black History Books of 2020

December 21, 2020March 29, 2021 AAIHS Editors

We asked editors and bloggers of Black Perspectives to select the best books published in 2020 on Black History, and they

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The Black Republic: An Author’s Response

December 11, 2020December 10, 2020 Brandon Byrd #TheBlackRepublic, black intellectual history, black internationalism, Haiti

The most familiar story about nineteenth-century African Americans and the Haitian Revolution is a romanticized account of how the revolution

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African Americans, Black Internationalism, and the Fate of Haiti

December 10, 2020January 11, 2021 Christina Davidson #TheBlackRepublic, African Diaspora, black internationalism, black radical tradition, Caribbean, Haiti, Resistance

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Brandon R. Byrd’s The Black Republic. From the outside looking in, there

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