‘Race For Profit’: An Author’s Response
*This post is part of our roundtable on Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s ‘Race for Profit.’ Dr. Taylor will be in conversation with Dr. Davarian
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Racial Capitalism
Black Radical Activists and the Dangers of the Police State
During recent anti-police brutality protests and marches across the United States, American police forces have displayed the very behavior that
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Racism After Redlining
Practically any modern American historian can narrate a brief history of redlining in the United States. As the story goes,
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Black Banking and Women Financial Power Brokers
In Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal, Shennette Garrett-Scott offers a compelling narrative that
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Black Patriotism and Black Death in the Aftermath of the American Revolution
On June 15, 1776, Lucretia Pritchett petitioned the Virginia Convention seeking reparations for the deceased enslaved man over whom she
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