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In the Heat of the Summer: A New Book on the 1964 New York Rebellions

November 25, 2016November 25, 2016 Ibram X. Kendi criminal justice system, New York

This post is part of a blog series I am editing, which announces the release of selected new works in African

Announcement: AAIHS/JCHR Roundtable on Heather Ann Thompson’s Blood in the Water

November 20, 2016January 17, 2017 AAIHS Editors carceral state, mass incarceration, New York

January 22-27, 2017 The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS)’s blog–Black Perspectives—is collaborating with the Journal of Civil and Human

Black Women Hustling off The Grid: An Author’s Response

September 10, 2016September 4, 2016 LaShawn Harris Black women, Harlem, New York

Today is the final day of our roundtable on LaShawn Harris’s new book, Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black

The Difficulty of Uncovering Obscure Lives and Hidden Histories

September 9, 2016December 30, 2016 Brian Purnell archives, Black women, Harlem, New York, research

Today is the fifth day of our roundtable on LaShawn Harris’s new book, Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black

Shifting Ground: Writing Working-Class Black Women’s History from Below

September 8, 2016September 3, 2016 Talitha LeFlouria Black women, Harlem, New York

Today is the fourth day of our roundtable on LaShawn Harris’s new book, Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black