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Harlem as Setting and Symbol

June 6, 2019June 16, 2019 LaShawn Harris Activism, black politics, culture, gentrification, Harlem, Harlem Renaissance

Examining Harlem’s long career as “setting and symbol” of African American and Diasporic life and culture, Race Capital?: Harlem as Setting

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Frederick Douglass’s Life and Labors

May 29, 2019May 21, 2019 Christopher Bonner Activism, black politics, black protest, Frederick Douglass, race, Resistance, slavery

“SLAVE-children are children,” Frederick Douglass wrote in his 1855 autobiography My Bondage and My Freedom. David Blight’s new study of

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Poll Power: A New Book about the Voter Education Project

May 17, 2019May 7, 2019 J. T. Roane civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, South, voting

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

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‘Dockworker Power’: Transnational Struggles for Justice

May 16, 2019May 6, 2019 Ralph Callebert Activism, black internationalism, black protest, labor, race, Racial Capitalism, Resistance, South Africa

Dockworkers are a favorite subject for many labor historians—including myself. Historically, they have proven themselves reliably radical and strike-prone, and

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Beyond Romantic Advertisements: Ancestry.com, Genealogy, and White Supremacy

May 10, 2019May 7, 2019 Adam H. Domby Historical Memory, primary source, racism, slavery

Ancestry.com has recently come under a lot of well-deserved criticism for whitewashing slavery with a new advertisement that portrays an

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