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Presumed Criminal: A New Book on Black Youth and the Justice System in New York

May 13, 2019May 13, 2019 J. T. Roane criminal justice system, mass incarceration, New York, urban history, youth

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 Madness: A New Book About Blackness and Disability

May 10, 2019April 29, 2019 J. T. Roane blackness, disability, embodiment, race

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

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Bill Bruton’s Fight for the Full Integration of Baseball

May 9, 2019May 9, 2019 Louis Moore base, Civil Rights Movement, Jim Crow, Resistance, sports

As the 2019 baseball season is among us and Major League Baseball (MLB) is doing its annual dance with Jackie

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Mack Ingram and the Policing of Black Sexuality

May 7, 2019May 5, 2019 Denise Lynn Activism, black protest, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, Gender, Jim Crow, race, Racial Violence, racism, white supremacy

In 1951, Mack Ingram was arrested, found guilty, and sentenced to two years of hard labor for looking at a

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Jim Crow North: A New Book about Segregation and Struggle outside the South

May 3, 2019May 6, 2019 J. T. Roane Activism, black politics, black protest, Black radicalism, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, racism, Resistance

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

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