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The Moral Challenge of the Middle Passage

March 6, 2017March 10, 2017 Jessica Marie Johnson #SlaveryAtSea, slave trade

This is the introduction to our online roundtable on Sowande’ Mustakeem’s Slavery at Sea The field of Middle Passage Studies

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Black Genealogies of Power: Seven Maxims for Resistance in the Trump Years

February 27, 2017March 1, 2017 Dan Berger black radical tradition, Politics, Resistance, Trumpism

“Power concedes nothing without demand,” argued Frederick Douglass in one of his most cited speeches. “It never did and it

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Online Roundtable: Sowande’ Mustakeem’s Slavery at Sea

February 26, 2017February 28, 2017 AAIHS Editors slave trade, slavery

March 6–11, 2017 Black Perspectives is hosting an online roundtable on Sowande’ Mustakeem’s Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the

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Trumpism and the Magnitude of Mass Incarceration

February 16, 2017February 18, 2017 David Stein carceral state, Donald Trump, mass incarceration, police violence

On Thursday, February 9, President Trump instituted new executive actions, which affirmed his campaign vows to emphasize “law and order.”

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Private, Public, and Vigilante Violence, Part 4

February 12, 2017February 16, 2017 Keri Leigh Merritt emancipation, mass incarceration, police brutality, police violence, white supremacy

This essay is Part Four of a four part series concerning the triumvirate of violence in slave societies. The first

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