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Categorization for Commodification: Racial Control in Colonial America

March 6, 2020March 1, 2020 Shaquan McDowell Historical Memory, Interracial relationships, race, racism, slavery, white supremacy

There is difficulty in formalizing the lines of the African American category: who falls within its brackets and whose history

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The Long Struggle Against Educational Injustice

March 4, 2020March 1, 2020 AAIHS Editors Activism, black politics, education, education reform, racism, Resistance

Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Curated

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Corporate Imperialism vs. Black (Educational) Liberation

February 24, 2020February 23, 2020 Jarvis R. Givens #AAIHSRoundtable, #APoliticalEducation, Activism, Black political thought, capitalism, education, education reform, imperialism

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Elizabeth Todd-Breland’s A Political Education: Black Politics and Education Reform in Chicago Since

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Black Banking and Women Financial Power Brokers

February 20, 2020February 16, 2020 Brandon K. Winford Black women, capitalism, Jim Crow, Race and Economic History, Racial Capitalism

In Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal, Shennette Garrett-Scott offers a compelling narrative that

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On Nostalgia: HBO’s ‘Watchmen’ and Black Religion in Three Sacred Facts

February 10, 2020February 9, 2020 Rhon Manigault-Bryant #Watchmen, Black film, digital media, film, music, popular culture, religion

*This post is part of our online forum organized by Ahmad Greene-Hayes on HBO’s hit series Watchmen.  Warning: This essay

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