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Black Banking and Women Financial Power Brokers

February 20, 2020February 16, 2020 Brandon K. Winford Black women, capitalism, Jim Crow, Race and Economic History, Racial Capitalism

In Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal, Shennette Garrett-Scott offers a compelling narrative that

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Coming of Age in Jim Crow DC: A New Book About Navigating the Politics of Everyday Life

January 24, 2020January 24, 2020 AAIHS Editors Activism, black intellectual history, black politics, Jim Crow, New Negro, Resistance, Washington DC, youth

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

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Harlem as Setting and Symbol

June 6, 2019June 16, 2019 LaShawn Harris Activism, black politics, culture, gentrification, Harlem, Harlem Renaissance

Examining Harlem’s long career as “setting and symbol” of African American and Diasporic life and culture, Race Capital?: Harlem as Setting

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Untangling Madam C.J. Walker’s Story

May 24, 2019May 24, 2019 A’Lelia Bundles #WalkerCentennial, Activism, black politics, Black women, Gender, Madam CJ Walker

*This post is part of our online forum on Madam C.J. Walker for the centennial anniversary of her death. As

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Alain Locke: Father of the Harlem Renaissance

November 6, 2018November 11, 2018 Anastasia Curwood Harlem, Harlem Renaissance

Sometime during the Great Depression, a young working-class Black man acquired a 1925 first-edition copy of The New Negro: An

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