Black Madness: A New Book About Blackness and Disability
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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Black Identity
The Trauma of Racial Violence in Frederick Douglass’s America
*This post is part of the online forum on The Futures of Frederick Douglass. The contributions in this forum each
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Frederick Douglass’s Narrative of Childhood
*This post is part of the online forum on The Futures of Frederick Douglass. The contributions in this forum each
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The ‘Baby Dolls’ of New Orleans: Gender, Race, and Self-Creation
“Is the unruly woman masker still relevant?” This question posed by Xavier University dean and professor Kim Vaz-Deville speaks to
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Politics, Public History, and Memory: An Interview with Niya Bates
In today’s post, senior editor J. T. Roane interviews Niya Bates, a native of Charlottesville, Virginia and a two-time graduate of the
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