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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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Place in the African American Intellectual Tradition

June 12, 2019June 9, 2019 Celeste Day Moore #AAIHSRoundtable, #RethinkingAAIH, black intellectual history, Chicago, education, geography, race, racism, Resistance, urban history

*This post is part of our online forum titled “What is African American Intellectual History?“ In thinking about the contours

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Occupied Territory: A New Book about Policing and Black Chicago

June 5, 2019June 3, 2019 J. T. Roane Chicago, police brutality, police violence, prisons, repression, Resistance

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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