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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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The Myth of Black Immunity: Racialized Disease during the COVID-19 Pandemic

April 3, 2020April 2, 2020 Chelsey Carter & Ezelle Sanford III medical racism, pandemic

As the novel coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic sweeps across the world, troubling associations between race and disease have gone viral.

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