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On Borders and the Matters of Black Life: A Review of “Seven Seconds”

April 11, 2018April 30, 2018 J. T. Roane film, Jim Crow, police brutality, police violence, Visual Culture

*Editor’s Note: This essay contains spoilers* In the recently released Netflix drama, Seven Seconds, viewers are confronted with a dramatization of

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Martin Luther King Jr. and Workers’ Rights in Baltimore

April 4, 2018April 7, 2018 Jane Berger Baltimore, capitalism, Civil Rights Movement, Martin Luther King Jr., MLK and American Cities, Resistance

*This post is part of our forum on Martin Luther King Jr.’s impact on American cities. In 1968, municipal sanitation workers

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Black Panther, White Supremacy, and Double Consciousness

March 17, 2018March 21, 2018 Michael D. Kennedy #BlackPanther, #comicsandrace, W.E.B. Du Bois, white supremacy

*This post is part of our new blog series on The World of the Black Panther. This series, edited by Julian Chambliss and Walter

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In the Shadows of Slavery’s Capitalism

March 5, 2018March 11, 2018 Calvin Schermerhorn #MasterlessMen, capitalism, Deep South, Jim Crow, landownership, Marxism, Politics, Racial Capitalism, slavery, South

*This post is part of our roundtable on Keri Leigh Merritt’s Masterless Men. Keri Leigh Merritt’s Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in

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The Anti-Black City: A New Book on Black Urban Life in Brazil

February 12, 2018February 16, 2018 Keisha N. Blain Afro-Brazilians, Brazil, carceral state, police brutality, police violence, policing

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

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