Place in the African American Intellectual Tradition
*This post is part of our online forum titled “What is African American Intellectual History?“ In thinking about the contours
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Chicago
Occupied Territory: A New Book about Policing and Black Chicago
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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Black Design in Chicago: An Exhibit and Symposium
If Harlem was the capital of Black fine arts in the United States in the twentieth century, Chicago was the
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Nature and the Great Migration in Chicago
Towering skyscrapers dotting the Lake Michigan coastline, “snowy winds,” “blistering suns,” and roaring streets described what Richard Wright aptly called
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‘The Criminalization of Black Children’: A New Book on Chicago’s Juvenile System
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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