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Black Girls, Domestic Violence, and the Limits of Self-Defense

September 13, 2016September 11, 2016 Lindsey E. Jones carceral state, mass incarceration

The case of Bresha Meadows, an African American teenage girl in Ohio, is a sad commentary on the failure of

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This Vast Southern Empire: A New Book on Slaveholders and U.S. Foreign Policy

September 12, 2016January 1, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi Deep South, empire, slavery

This post is part of a new and recurring blog series I am editing, which announces the release of selected new

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Men without Pants: Masculinity and the Enslaved

September 11, 2016September 11, 2016 Keri Leigh Merritt Deep South, masculinity

Although nearly fifty-seven years have passed since Stanley Elkins’ provocative thesis on the effects of slavery rocked the historical community,

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Militant Visions: A New Book on Black Soldiers, Internationalism, and American Cinema

September 11, 2016September 10, 2016 Ibram X. Kendi black soldiers

This post is part of a new and recurring blog series I am editing, which announces the publication of selected

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Black Women Hustling off The Grid: An Author’s Response

September 10, 2016September 4, 2016 LaShawn Harris Black women, Harlem, New York

Today is the final day of our roundtable on LaShawn Harris’s new book, Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black

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