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The Visual Documentation of Racist Violence in America

November 4, 2020October 31, 2020 Mary Niall Mitchell Civil War, photography, race, racism, slavery

Speaking to a Washington Post reporter recently, attorney Ben Crump (who represents the families of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Sean

Mapping a Plan for Reparations in the Twenty-First Century

October 8, 2020October 13, 2020 Ashley Dennis capitalism, Politics, reparations

As the U.S. reckons with systemic racism in the wake of global protests over the murder of George Floyd, Breonna

Online Forum: Eric Williams’ ‘Capitalism and Slavery’

September 10, 2020September 17, 2020 AAIHS Editors #CapitalismandSlavery

September 21–25, 2020 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), will host an online forum on

Revisiting Lerone Bennett Jr.’s ‘Forced Into Glory’

September 10, 2020September 17, 2020 E. James West Abraham Lincoln

The work of popular historian Lerone Bennett Jr. falls within a longer ‘anti-Lincoln tradition’ of African American intellectual thought–a tradition

Race, Medicine, and the Origins of American Psychiatry

September 8, 2020September 17, 2020 Natalie Shibley race, Racial Violence, South, teaching

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, American physicians developed and promoted biological notions of racial difference that have