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Educating Harlem: A New Book on Schooling and Resistance in New York

April 24, 2020April 24, 2020 AAIHS Editors education, Harlem, 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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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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Black Deaths and Black Mourning in the Time of Coronavirus

April 20, 2020April 19, 2020 Joan Flores-Villalobos Afro-Latin, Afro-Latinx, Caribbean, Latin America, mourning, Panama

That coronavirus (COVID-19) is “the great equalizer” has quickly become an old and tired adage, rightly critiqued by scholars and

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Ebony Magazine and Lerone Bennett Jr.: A New Book on Popular Black History in Postwar America

April 17, 2020April 12, 2020 AAIHS Editors black intellectual history, journalism, popular culture

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

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Occupied Territory: An Author’s Response

April 10, 2020April 5, 2020 Simon Balto #AAIHSRoundtable, #OccupiedTerritory, Chicago, 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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