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Police Violence Against Black WWII Veterans

November 9, 2023October 30, 2023 Candace Cunningham Black Veterans, police violence, racism, World War II

Black Americans signed up in record numbers to serve their country during World War II. They did so despite a

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The Legal History of Travel Discrimination

November 2, 2023October 29, 2023 Rebecca Dudley book review, civil rights, Jim Crow, racism, Resistance

Many of us take for granted the ease of our particular American-style mobility. We can go wherever we want to,

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1978 GRANES Quilombo parade

Rio’s Carnival Quilombo

October 19, 2023October 16, 2023 João Gabriel Rabello Sodré and Vítor Antunes Afro-Brazilians, Afro-Latinx, Brazil, Carnival

This post is part of our forum on “Race and Latin America.” Brazil’s Carnival is widely imagined as a locus

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Posthumous Authority: Revisiting Carolina Maria de Jesus

October 17, 2023October 16, 2023 Cassie Osei #raceandlatinamerica, African Diaspora, Black women, Gender, race

This post is part of our forum on “Race and Latin America” In the bustling streets of Paris, the French

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Black Actresses as Symbols of Resistance to Brazilian Racial Democracy

October 16, 2023October 8, 2023 Jasmine Mitchell #raceandlatinamerica, Afro-Brazilians, Black women, Latin America, Resistance

This post is part of our forum on “Race and Latin America.” “Sou negra” (I am Black), declare Taís Araújo

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