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We Are Not Slaves — An Author’s Response

January 15, 2021January 15, 2021 Robert T. Chase #AAIHSRoundtable, #WeAreNotSlaves, carceral state, Gender, Jim Crow, oral history, prisons, race, racism, sexual violence, sexuality, slavery, violence, white supremacy

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Robert T. Chase’s We Are Not Slaves. On Friday, January 15, at 12noon

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Prisoners’ Rights, Resistance, and the Law

January 13, 2021January 10, 2021 Cheryl D. Hicks #WeAreNotSlaves, carceral state, mass incarceration, prisons

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Robert T. Chase’s We Are Not Slaves. Robert Chase’s compelling book, We

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Silencing Black Radicalism Since the Cold War

December 3, 2020December 3, 2020 Denise Lynn Activism, black internationalism, Black radicalism, civil rights, Resistance, W.E.B. Du Bois

As the recent election has shown, anti-communism is alive and well in the United States. Donald Trump and other conservatives

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Black Brazilian Researchers and Activists Respond to Covid-19

December 2, 2020December 2, 2020 Kia Lilly Caldwell African Diaspora, Afro-Brazilians, Brazil, COVID-19, health, race, racism

By late May 2020, Brazil was the country with the second-highest number of coronavirus cases and deaths in the world. 

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Race, Violence, and Resistance in Puerto Rico

December 1, 2020November 22, 2020 Don S. Polite, Jr. book review, colonialism, police brutality, police violence, policing, Puerto Rico, race, racism

In Policing Life and Death: Race, Violence, and Resistance in Puerto Rico, Marisol LeBrón explores a troubling notion that seems

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