urban history – AAIHS

A Flash of Life and Light

May 20, 2020May 20, 2020 Kevin Quashie 0 Comments
#WaywardLives, black feminism, Black Studies, Black women, blackness, Gender, Literary studies, literature, race, urban history

*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with the Journal of African American History. How to contend with

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Recovering the Lives of City Women

May 19, 2020May 19, 2020 LaShawn Harris 0 Comments
#politicsofrespectability, #WaywardLives, archives, black feminism, Black Queers, Black women, freedom, fugitivity, geography, sexuality, urban history

*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with the Journal of African American History. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments is

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Chicago at the Center

February 26, 2020February 23, 2020 Ansley T. Erickson #AAIHSRoundtable, #APoliticalEducation, Activism, Black political thought, black politics, Black women, economic justice, education, education reform, urban history

*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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Housing Discrimination in the Jim Crow US and The Case for Reparations

February 4, 2020February 2, 2020 AAIHS Editors housing, segregation, urban history

Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Curated

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The Violence of Racial Capitalism in Dakota

October 9, 2019October 6, 2019 André Carrington #MilestoneMedia, criminal justice system, police violence, poverty, race, Race and Economic History, urban history

*This post is part of our online forum on the Black-owned and -controlled Milestone Media. In the 2018 horror film

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