Harlem as Setting and Symbol
Examining Harlem’s long career as “setting and symbol” of African American and Diasporic life and culture, Race Capital?: Harlem as Setting
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The Racial Geography of Universities
What does it mean to learn how to read a place? This question silently guides the Racial Geography Tour of
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Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement: A New Book in Civil Rights History
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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Frederick Douglass’s Life and Labors
“SLAVE-children are children,” Frederick Douglass wrote in his 1855 autobiography My Bondage and My Freedom. David Blight’s new study of
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Black Queer Theater as Love Praxis: An Interview with Jeremy O’Brian
In today’s post, senior editor J.T. Roane interviews, Jeremy O’Brian who is currently a Teaching Fellow at The New School’s
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