Betting on Black: Gambling and Gaming in the ‘Mississippi of the West’
In the famous 1954 Ebony article “Negroes can’t win in Las Vegas,” James Goodrich dubbed Sin City
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Racism
Racism as Theory: A Historiography of White Supremacy Ideology
This historiography theorizes racism as applicable to an explanation of why decision-makers at major white organizations waited until the late
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Northern Black People’s Freedom Struggle in the Nineteenth Century
During the mid-nineteenth-century, Black people collectively fought for racial equality and social justice within the U.S. The scholarship of historians,
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The Racial Politics of Demobilizing USCT Regiments
On April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee (commander of the Confederate States Army) formally surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant (commander
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Black Remembrance and Racial Violence in New Orleans
In 1831, Nat Turner—who led a band of bondpeople into insurrection in Southampton, Virginia –was executed, quelling what a great
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