“The Right to Laugh”: Remembering Jeffrey B. Ferguson
This post is part of a week-long forum, organized by Mary Hicks, honoring Professor Jeffrey Brown Ferguson who passed away on
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The Great Migration and Black Environmental History: An Interview with Brian McCammack
In today’s post, J.T. Roane, Associate Editor at Black Perspectives and an Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the
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The Illusion of Progress in the Story of American Democracy
The word progress is central to contemporary political rhetoric. Self-described progressives work toward what they see as positive change. Meanwhile, a
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The NFL’s Denial of Black Humanity
In response to protests that rocked the national sports world, NFL owners have approved a new policy that requires players
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The Globalization of American Racial Exclusion
In hindsight, historians of American immigration will be pressed to name the first two decades of the twenty-first century as
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