Louis Austin and the Carolina Times: A New Book on A North Carolina Journalist and Activist
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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Jim Crow
The Lost Black Scholar: A New Book on the Pioneering Anthropologist Allison Davis
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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On Borders and the Matters of Black Life: A Review of “Seven Seconds”
*Editor’s Note: This essay contains spoilers* In the recently released Netflix drama, Seven Seconds, viewers are confronted with a dramatization of
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In the Shadows of Slavery’s Capitalism
*This post is part of our roundtable on Keri Leigh Merritt’s Masterless Men. Keri Leigh Merritt’s Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in
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Gender, Civil Rights, and the Case of Odell Waller
Pauli Murray is a central figure of women’s activism. Her career spanned five decades and included work in the labor
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