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Policing Black Freedom

August 5, 2021August 5, 2021 Philip V. McHarris #contestedcitizenship, Activism, police violence, Resistance, slavery, W.E.B. Du Bois, white supremacy

*This post is part of our roundtable on “Contested Citizenship,” organized in collaboration with the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study

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Allegiance, Birthright, and Race in America

August 4, 2021August 3, 2021 William Darity Jr. and Charles Ali Bey #contestedcitizenship, civil rights, race, slavery, South

“This post is part of our roundtable on “Contested Citizenship,” organized in collaboration with the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study

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George Hackett, Baltimore’s Birthright Citizen

August 3, 2021August 3, 2021 Martha S. Jones #AAIHSRoundtable, #contestedcitizenship, black politics

*This post is part of our roundtable on “Contested Citizenship,” organized in collaboration with the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study

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Introduction to “Contested Citizenship” Roundtable

August 2, 2021August 3, 2021 Lisa A. Monroe #AAIHSRoundtable, #contestedcitizenship, black lives matter, education

*This post is part of our roundtable on “Contested Citizenship,” organized in collaboration with the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study

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Protest, Property, and the Black Press

July 27, 2021July 26, 2021 E. James West black intellectual history, Racial Violence

The centennial of the Tulsa Massacre earlier this year provided a moment to reflect on perhaps the worst single incidence

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