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Distinguishing Abolition from Reform

September 24, 2020September 22, 2020 Sasha Turner #CapitalismandSlavery, abolition, African Diaspora, Black political thought, black politics, capitalism, Caribbean, colonialism, freedom, imperialism, race, slavery

*This essay is part of our online forum on Eric Williams’ Capitalism and Slavery (1944), organized by historian Sasha Turner. The forum is in

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Black Religious Politics: An Interview with Historian Nicole Myers Turner

September 14, 2020September 5, 2020 Ahmad Greene-Hayes Gender, religion

In today’s post, blogger Ahmad Greene-Hayes interviews Nicole Myers Turner about her new book, Soul Liberty: The Evolution of Black Religious

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‘On the Books’: Machine Learning Jim Crow

September 11, 2020September 17, 2020 William Sturkey digital media, Jim Crow

In 1950, the scholar-activist Pauli Murray published an important book titled States’ Laws on Race and Color. Sponsored by the Women’s

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Revisiting Lerone Bennett Jr.’s ‘Forced Into Glory’

September 10, 2020September 17, 2020 E. James West Abraham Lincoln

The work of popular historian Lerone Bennett Jr. falls within a longer ‘anti-Lincoln tradition’ of African American intellectual thought–a tradition

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Race, Medicine, and the Origins of American Psychiatry

September 8, 2020September 17, 2020 Natalie Shibley race, Racial Violence, South, teaching

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, American physicians developed and promoted biological notions of racial difference that have

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