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Biden Has a Unique Opportunity to Undo Years of Education Inequality

February 23, 2021February 21, 2021 Crystal R. Sanders

President Biden has pledged to combat racial inequality and to expand access and lower costs for higher education. These proposed

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Blog Announcement: New Editors and Bloggers

January 19, 2021January 19, 2021 AAIHS Editors aaihs

The editing team of Black Perspectives is excited to begin the new year! Thank you for supporting us over these past

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Looking Back: Convict Leasing and the Trusty System

January 14, 2021January 11, 2021 Charlene J. Fletcher #WeAreNotSlaves, carceral state, mass incarceration, prisons, sexuality

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Robert T. Chase’s We Are Not Slaves. Over the past four

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Medicalizing Black Military Service in an Age of Global Imperialism

January 4, 2021January 3, 2021 Christopher D. E. Willoughby book review, medical racism, military, race, racism, sexuality

At the turn of twentieth century, universities in the United States began founding schools of tropical medicine. Schools like Harvard

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The Best Black History Books of 2020

December 21, 2020March 29, 2021 AAIHS Editors

We asked editors and bloggers of Black Perspectives to select the best books published in 2020 on Black History, and they

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