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The Legacy of the 1968 Rebellion for Today’s Protests in ‘Chocolate City’

June 18, 2020June 17, 2020 Kimberly Probolus black rebellion, Resistance, Washington DC

In 1968, Washington Post journalists Harry Jaffe and Tom Sherwood named police brutality as one of the factors motivating protestors

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Writing Atrocity, Rethinking Rebellion, and Documenting State Violence

June 3, 2020June 3, 2020 Robert Chase carceral state, criminal justice system, mass incarceration, Resistance

This week we’re revisiting Heather Ann Thompson’s Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy (Pantheon Books,

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‘Island on Fire’: A New Book about the Revolt that Ended Slavery in the British Empire

May 15, 2020May 15, 2020 AAIHS Editors black rebellion, Jamaica, slavery

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

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Confinement and Disease from Slavery to the COVID-19 Pandemic

May 14, 2020May 14, 2020 Gabriella Onikoro-Arkell carceral state, Chicago, COVID-19, geography, slavery

As many college students as well as others have moved back home during the current pandemic people’s houses are feeling

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A Meditation on Natural Light and the Use of Fire in United States Slavery

January 13, 2020January 12, 2020 Tyler Parry black rebellion, environment, Racial Violence, Resistance, slavery, white supremacy

In her September 16, 2019 post for Black Perspectives, “Race and the Paradoxes of the Night,” cultural anthropologist Celeste Henery

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