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Steeped in the Blood: On The May 15th, 1970 Jackson State Killings

May 15, 2020May 14, 2020 Brandon James Render Mississippi, police violence, Racial Violence, student activism

On the night of May 14, 1970, Phillip Gibbs and James Earl Green made their way to Alexander Hall, a

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Racism After Redlining

April 21, 2020April 23, 2020 N.D.B Connolly civil rights, housing, Racial Capitalism

Practically any modern American historian can narrate a brief history of redlining in the United States. As the story goes,

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Violence, Empathy, and Solidarity, in the New History of Policing

April 6, 2020April 5, 2020 Dan Berger #AAIHSRoundtable, #OccupiedTerritory, carceral state, mass incarceration, 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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Runaway Genres and the Global Legacy of Slavery

April 1, 2020March 29, 2020 Iana Robitaille literature, slavery

In her sweeping monograph Runaway Genres: The Global Afterlives of Slavery, Yogita Goyal takes up the legacy of the American

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Online Roundtable—Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power

March 31, 2020March 29, 2020 AAIHS Editors #AAIHSRoundtable, #OccupiedTerritory

April 6–10, 2020 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is collaborating with the Journal of Civil and

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