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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

Overseer Violence on Eighteenth Century Plantations

June 5, 2019May 24, 2019 Robert D. Bland book review, Racial Violence, slavery, South

For scholars of eighteenth-century North American slavery, the rise of the plantation-complex grounds many of the field’s central questions. When

On Richard Wright’s Hunger and Kiese Laymon’s Heavy

June 4, 2019June 3, 2019 Field Brown book review, Deep South, embodiment, food, literature, memoir, Mississippi, South

Richard Wright’s famous autobiography, Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth (1945) was originally titled American Hunger. However, the

Reclaiming Intimate Histories in the Americas

April 29, 2019May 6, 2019 Katie Knowles Black women, book review, sexual violence, sexuality, slavery

Sexuality and Slavery: Reclaiming Intimate Histories in the Americas, co-edited by Daina Ramey Berry and Leslie M. Harris, is a

Nation Time: ‘A Nation Within A Nation’ At Twenty

April 4, 2019August 12, 2022 Michael O. West black politics, Black Power, book review, race

*This post is part of our online roundtable celebrating the 20-year anniversary of the publication of Komozi Woodard’s A Nation Within