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Race, Medicine, and the Origins of American Psychiatry

September 8, 2020September 17, 2020 Natalie Shibley race, Racial Violence, South, teaching

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, American physicians developed and promoted biological notions of racial difference that have

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Surveillance, State Power, and the Activism of Shirley Graham Du Bois

September 1, 2020September 1, 2020 Denise Lynn Activism, black internationalism, Canada, Communism, W.E.B. Du Bois

The recent Black Lives Matter protests against police brutality are a reminder that social justice advocacy and activism can come

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The Everyday Black Life of Abolition

August 5, 2020August 12, 2020 Celeste Winston maroons, policing, Prison Abolition, social justice

The summer of 2020 has seen extraordinary uprisings against policing in the United States. An estimated 15 to 26 million

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Power to the People: An Interview with Paul Ortiz and Johanna Fernandez

July 2, 2020June 28, 2020 AAIHS Editors African Diaspora, black nationalism, Black Panther Party, Puerto Rican history, 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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An Appeal –Bring the Maroon to the Foreground in Black Intellectual History

June 19, 2020June 17, 2020 Yannick Marshall black intellectual history, marronage, race, Racial Violence, racism, Resistance, violence, white supremacy

Within the larger narrative of slave resistance, maroons offered a unique experiment. They created and exposed to whites and blacks

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