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The 1917 Halifax Explosion and Structural Anti-Blackness in Times of Crisis

April 14, 2020April 11, 2020 Rachel Zellars Canada, Historical Memory

Last fall, two local researchers from Halifax, Nova Scotia published their original findings of racial disparities in the relief efforts

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‘A White Man Took Her’: Trauma, Loss, and Grief among the Enslaved

April 13, 2020April 12, 2020 Tyler Parry Civil War, Marriage, mourning, Post-Civil War, Racial Violence, slavery, violence

In November 1864, a formerly enslaved man named Peter Bumper and his fiance Bucinda Nelson had their marriage registered with

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Occupied Territory: An Author’s Response

April 10, 2020April 5, 2020 Simon Balto #AAIHSRoundtable, #OccupiedTerritory, Chicago, police brutality, police violence, policing

*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with the Journal of Civil and Human Rights on Simon Balto’s Occupied Territory: Policing

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Police Professionalization and the Institutionalization of Racist Repression

April 8, 2020April 5, 2020 Max Felker-Kantor #AAIHSRoundtable, #OccupiedTerritory, Chicago, police brutality, police violence, policing

*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with the Journal of Civil and Human Rights on Simon Balto’s Occupied Territory: Policing

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Violence, Empathy, and Solidarity, in the New History of Policing

April 6, 2020April 5, 2020 Dan Berger #AAIHSRoundtable, #OccupiedTerritory, carceral state, mass incarceration, police brutality, police violence, policing

*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with the Journal of Civil and Human Rights on Simon Balto’s Occupied Territory: Policing

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