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The History of Black Women and Violence

September 27, 2023September 14, 2023 Chinaza Okonkwo Black women, book review, domestic violence, medical racism, violence

Anti-blackness, including the violent events our society typically invokes when reflecting on racism, often centers on the violence inflicted on

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The MOVE Bombing and the Callous Handling of Black Remains

April 26, 2021April 26, 2021 Jessica Parr medical experimentation, medical racism, police brutality, police violence

The 1985 MOVE bombing by the Philadelphia Police shocked and devastated a city, leaving destruction that killed 11 people, including

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The African American Struggle Against HIV/AIDS

April 6, 2021April 18, 2021 Nikita Shepard Activism, Black Queers, book review, HIV-AIDS, LGBT, medical racism, race, racism, Resistance

The devastation wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic over the past year has intensified scrutiny of racial health inequities in the

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Medicalizing Black Military Service in an Age of Global Imperialism

January 4, 2021January 3, 2021 Christopher D. E. Willoughby book review, medical racism, military, race, racism, sexuality

At the turn of twentieth century, universities in the United States began founding schools of tropical medicine. Schools like Harvard

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Autoethnographies of a Pandemic from Brooklyn’s Epicenter

October 12, 2020October 19, 2020 Jeanne Theoharis, Joseph Entin, and Dominick Braswell #AAIHSRoundtable, #Autoethnographies, class, COVID-19, ethnography, health, medical racism, New York, race, Racial Violence, racism, Resistance, student activism

Editor’s note: Today we are pleased to announce the launch of a two-week blog series, featuring eight autoethnographies from students

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