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“This Is Chaos:” Order Maintenance and the Fear of Black Anarchy in Atlanta

June 23, 2020June 21, 2020 Danielle Wiggins Atlanta, sexuality, youth

Late on May 30, 2020, Atlanta mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms rose to national notoriety with a passionate speech that rebuked not

Intimate History, Radical Narrative

May 22, 2020June 3, 2020 Saidiya Hartman #WaywardLives, black feminism, black radical tradition, Black radicalism, Black women, Gender, Resistance, W.E.B. Du Bois

*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with the Journal of African American History. Archival documents are scattered

Recovering the Lives of City Women

May 19, 2020May 19, 2020 LaShawn Harris #politicsofrespectability, #WaywardLives, archives, black feminism, Black Queers, Black women, freedom, fugitivity, geography, sexuality, urban history

*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with the Journal of African American History. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments is

Black Workers and Consumers in the Long Civil Rights Movement

October 2, 2019September 22, 2019 Aimee Loiselle book review, capitalism, Civil Rights Movement, labor, race

As Amazon expanded from an online retail corporation into a transnational logistics operation with retail, content/entertainment, shipping, data and web

Lift Every Voice and Sing: On The Power of the Black National Anthem

July 4, 2019July 3, 2019 Erica Ball education, James Weldon Johnson, music, NAACP, segregation

“Lift Every Voice and Sing” is a song that most Black Americans of my generation know so deeply that it