Black Administrative Politics and the Question of the US State
In his book Administering Freedom, labor organizer and historian Dale Kretz asks how formerly enslaved Black people made freedom meaningful through
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Posthumous Authority: Revisiting Carolina Maria de Jesus
This post is part of our forum on “Race and Latin America” In the bustling streets of Paris, the French
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Environmental Racism in South Carolina
The American metropolis and perceptions of the so-called “urban crisis” have loomed large in previous installments of my Race and
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Black Resistance and Slave Politics in Lowcountry Georgia
Within Lowcountry Georgia, enslaved Africans expressed a determined political will to resist enslavement and maintain dignity. Their dislocation reinforced
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The Revolutionary Language of Black Abolitionists
In the summer of 1854, a group of free Black men and women from across the United States met in
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