urban history

Documenting Environmental Racism

August 26, 2022August 21, 2022 E. James West DOCUMERICA, environment, Environmental Racism, photography, urban history

There’s a good reason why I’ve focused on the work of Chicago-based Black photojournalist John H. White during the first

Universities and Cities: An Interview with Davarian Baldwin

May 13, 2021June 5, 2021 Robert Greene II education, gentrification, urban history

This is an interview with Robert Greene II, the lead associate editor of Black Perspectives, and Davarian Baldwin. Baldwin is the Paul

Redlining, Predatory Inclusion, and Housing Segregation

March 10, 2021March 19, 2021 Paige Glotzer #AAIHSRoundtable, #RaceForProfit, economic history, housing, race, racism, segregation, urban history

*This post is part of our roundtable on Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s ‘Race for Profit’ From the presidential debates to anti-racist reading lists,

The American Dream and the Urban Crisis

March 8, 2021March 19, 2021 Julia Rabig #RaceForProfit, Black women, capitalism, civil rights, economic history, Gender, housing, race, racism, segregation, urban history

*This post is part of our roundtable on Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s ‘Race for Profit’ For decades, historians have chronicled manifestations of systemic

A Flash of Life and Light

May 20, 2020May 20, 2020 Kevin Quashie #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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