A Dual Emancipation: How Black Freedom Benefited Poor Whites
Recently scholars have come to question “emancipation” as the proper terminology for describing the end of American slavery, preferring instead
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“What’s Going On?”: Race, Brutality, and Injustice Since Rodney King
On April 2, 1939, legendary R&B and soul singer Marvin Gaye was born. Known for a body of masterpieces, his
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Reading the Language of Violence in the Middle Passage
This post is part of our online roundtable on Sowande’ Mustakeem’s Slavery at Sea “The dead are not remembered in
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Private, Public, and Vigilante Violence in Slave Societies, Part 3
This essay is Part Three of a four part series concerning the triumvirate of violence in slave societies. The first
Read moreOrlando and the American Pathologies of Masculinity and Militarism
It is virtually forbidden–as an unpatriotic act–that the American boy evolve into the complexity of manhood. –James Baldwin The dominant
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