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Environmental Racism in South Carolina

September 29, 2023September 22, 2023 E. James West DOCUMERICA, environmental justice, photography, race, RaceandDocumerica, racism, Sea Islands

The American metropolis and perceptions of the so-called “urban crisis” have loomed large in previous installments of my Race and

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Global Blackness: More than Strangers, More than Citizens

September 14, 2023September 7, 2023 April J. Mayes #TranslatingBlackness, Haiti, Immigration, Racial Capitalism

This post is part of our online roundtable on Lorgia García Peña’s Translating Blackness. There she stood, in the middle of a dirt

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The Times-Picayune’s Historical Use of the N-Word

September 8, 2023August 25, 2023 Bala Baptiste Jim Crow, MEDIA, Newspapers, white supremacy

The News Orleans daily newspaper the Times-Picayune, since its founding on January 25, 1837, and throughout 1914, when it merged

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Blog Announcements: Meet the Editing Team!

September 1, 2023August 27, 2023 AAIHS Editors

The editing team of Black Perspectives is excited to begin the next academic year! Thank you for supporting us over

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On The Sixtieth Anniversary of the March on Washington

August 28, 2023August 28, 2023 Robert Greene II civil rights

In recent years, memorialization of the Civil Rights era from the 1950s and 1960s has taken on a new urgency

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