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The Connections Between Urban Development and Colonialism

November 27, 2017December 1, 2017 Paige Glotzer capitalism, colonialism, gentrification, Race and Economic History, Racial Violence, racism, segregation

This post is part of our online forum on Race, Property, and Economic History. “It’s kind of manifest destiny…now the marketplace and the city has

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Black Power Meets Pan-Africanism in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

November 13, 2017November 15, 2017 Peter Cole black internationalism, black nationalism, black radical tradition, Pan-Africanism

Historian Seth Markle has written the latest must-have book on Black Power politics. His book is “required reading” because he

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Revolutionary Optimism in Despicable Times

November 4, 2017November 8, 2017 Russell Rickford black lives matter, Black October, Marxism, Russian Revolution

This post is part of our online forum, “Black October,” on the Russian Revolution and the African Diaspora “Life is not an

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The Rise of Incarceration in Los Angeles: An Interview with Kelly Lytle Hernandez

October 28, 2017October 31, 2017 Erica Sterling Los Angeles, mass incarceration

In today’s post, Erica Sterling, a PhD student in the Department of History at Harvard University, interviews Kelly Lytle Hernandez about

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Like Praying: Puerto Rico on a Map

October 28, 2017October 31, 2017 Jessica Marie Johnson Caribbean, Donald Trump

“Although the plantation tradition has been relegated to the dustbin of history by some social theorists, it continues to survive

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