Chicago – AAIHS

Confinement and Disease from Slavery to the COVID-19 Pandemic

May 14, 2020May 14, 2020 Gabriella Onikoro-Arkell carceral state, Chicago, COVID-19, geography, slavery

As many college students as well as others have moved back home during the current pandemic people’s houses are feeling

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Art for the People’s Sake: Chicago’s Black Arts Movement

April 16, 2020April 12, 2020 Tracey Johnson art, Black Arts Movement, Black Power, book review, Chicago, Visual Culture

The past five years have brought numerous fifty-year Civil Rights and Black Power Movement commemorations to the fore. Last year,

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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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An Education in Politics

February 27, 2020February 23, 2020 Noliwe Rooks #AAIHSRoundtable, #APoliticalEducation, Activism, Black women, Chicago, education, education reform, student activism

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Elizabeth Todd-Breland’s A Political Education: Black Politics and Education Reform in Chicago Since

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