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Sandra Bland and Assata Shakur: Imagining Liberation from Persecution

July 12, 2018July 16, 2018 Cristina Mislan #SandraBlandForum, #sayhername, mass incarceration, police brutality, police violence, prisons, Sandra Bland

This post is part of our online roundtable on Sandra Bland, coinciding with the third anniversary of her death. The

The African Diaspora in Europe Today

June 15, 2018June 23, 2018 Stephen Small African Diaspora, Black Europe, Black Europe Series, Black German, Blacks in Britain, Germany, race

*This post is part of our new blog series on Black Europe. This series, edited by Kira Thurman and Anne-Marie Angelo, explores what it means

The Capitalist Foundations of Racialization

April 30, 2018May 5, 2018 Charisse Burden-Stelly colonialism, economic justice, slave trade

Racialization—one process of regulating, organizing, and subjecting populations through capital and labor—is integral to and endemic in the capitalist world-system. It

“Middle Class” is a White Racial Construct

April 16, 2018April 21, 2018 Christopher Petrella and Ameer Hasan Loggins imperialism, racism, white supremacy

Over the past year a flurry of studies and op-eds highlighting diminished opportunities for economic advancement among people of color

Claiming Freedom: A New Book on the Transition from Slavery to Emancipation in Georgia

April 16, 2018April 21, 2018 Keisha N. Blain economic justice, Georgia

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History