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‘Duty Beyond the Battlefield’: A New Book About Black Soldiers’ Role in Shaping Early Civil Rights

May 25, 2020June 17, 2020 AAIHS Editors black soldiers, civil rights, military

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

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The Ungovernable Carceral State

April 9, 2020April 5, 2020 Melanie Newport #AAIHSRoundtable, #OccupiedTerritory, carceral state, police brutality, police violence, policing

*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with the Journal of Civil and Human Rights on Simon Balto’s Occupied Territory: Policing

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Reimagining Liberation: A New Book about Black Women who Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire

March 20, 2020March 15, 2020 AAIHS Editors black internationalism, Black women, Caribbean, Pan-Africanism

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

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To Fulfill These Rights: A New Book About the Struggle Over Affirmative Action and Open Admissions

October 18, 2019October 17, 2019 J. T. Roane Activism, affirmative action, black protest, Resistance, student activism

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

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Black Workers and Consumers in the Long Civil Rights Movement

October 2, 2019September 22, 2019 Aimee Loiselle book review, capitalism, Civil Rights Movement, labor, race

As Amazon expanded from an online retail corporation into a transnational logistics operation with retail, content/entertainment, shipping, data and web

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