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Centering Women in Occupied Territory

April 7, 2020April 5, 2020 Anne Gray Fischer #AAIHSRoundtable, #OccupiedTerritory, Black women, 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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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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On Authenticity

March 25, 2020March 22, 2020 Marquis Bey #OnSuite, Black Freethought, Black political thought, black politics, Black Queer Identity, LGBT, race

*This post is part of contributor Marquis Bey’s On Suite series. The discourse surrounding authenticity is nothing new, to be sure. It

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