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African Americans and the State Militia

September 22, 2023September 7, 2023 Gregory Mixon antebellum, citizenship, Civil War, military, Militia

What is the historical relationship between African Americans and the state militia? Today, some may believe the militia to be

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Global Blackness: More than Strangers, More than Citizens

September 14, 2023September 7, 2023 April J. Mayes #TranslatingBlackness, Haiti, Immigration, Racial Capitalism

This post is part of our online roundtable on Lorgia García Peña’s Translating Blackness. There she stood, in the middle of a dirt

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Translating Blackness and Transcending Hierarchies of Belonging

September 13, 2023September 7, 2023 Crystal M. Fleming #TranslatingBlackness, African Diaspora, black internationalism, Frederick Douglass

This post is part of our online roundtable on Lorgia García Peña’s Translating Blackness. In the penultimate chapter of Translating Blackness:

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Black Women, Violence, and the Territory of Global Antiblackness

September 12, 2023September 7, 2023 Shana L. Redmond #TranslatingBlackness, violence

This post is part of our online roundtable on Lorgia García Peña’s Translating Blackness. The violence is irrepressible. The names of those taken

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The Times-Picayune’s Historical Use of the N-Word

September 8, 2023August 25, 2023 Bala Baptiste Jim Crow, MEDIA, Newspapers, white supremacy

The News Orleans daily newspaper the Times-Picayune, since its founding on January 25, 1837, and throughout 1914, when it merged

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