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A Black Brazilian Immigrant and the Struggle Civil Rights in the U.S.

January 26, 2021January 26, 2021 Lloyd Belton Activism, African Diaspora, black protest, Gender, race, Resistance

Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth and Sarah Parker Remond are usually the

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Prisoners’ Rights, Resistance, and the Law

January 13, 2021January 10, 2021 Cheryl D. Hicks #WeAreNotSlaves, carceral state, mass incarceration, prisons

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Robert T. Chase’s We Are Not Slaves. Robert Chase’s compelling book, We

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Mass Incarceration and the Metaphor of Slavery

January 12, 2021January 12, 2021 Shannon King #WeAreNotSlaves, carceral state, mass incarceration, prisons, slavery

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

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Carceral Studies and Same-Sex Intimacy

January 12, 2021January 10, 2021 Timothy Stewart-Winter #WeAreNotSlaves, carceral state, LGBT, mass incarceration, prisons, sexual violence, sexuality

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Robert T. Chase’s We Are Not Slaves. Robert T. Chase’s book, We

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Women’s Experiences during the American Civil War

January 8, 2021January 3, 2021 Robert Colby Black women, book review, Civil War, Gender, slavery

In the winter of 1863 and 1864, with the Civil War entering its third year, two women living in Southeastern

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