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The History and Failure of Prison in Washington

February 5, 2019March 31, 2019 Dan Berger prisons

The following essay is excerpted from my introduction to the second edition of Concrete Mama: Prison Profiles from Walla Walla,

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Attack Dogs and the History of Racial Violence

February 5, 2019March 31, 2019 Tyler Parry police brutality, police violence, Racial Violence

In 1970 French author Romain Gary published his novel White Dog, a semi-biographical work that imaginatively recreated the author’s experiences

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‘Force and Freedom’: A New Book About Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence

February 1, 2019March 31, 2019 J. T. Roane abolitionism

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 Thought and Sexual Politics: An Interview with Guy Emerson Mount

January 17, 2019January 29, 2019 Chris Shell black intellectual history, Frederick Douglass, Interracial relationships

In today’s post, Christopher Shell, a PhD student at Michigan State University, interviews historian Guy Emerson Mount about his chapter in New Perspectives on Black

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Race and Service in the Pacific During World War II

January 16, 2019January 29, 2019 Karen Cook Bell Activism, book review, military, Pacific War

Historian John Dower has noted that “apart from the genocide of the Jews, racism remains one of the great neglected

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