Migrant Children and Family Separation in the United States
American nationalism, like all other nationalisms, is an imagined concept of belonging and community. In this regard, it is not
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Racial Violence
History, Memory, and Racial Violence in America
In April 2018, the Equal Justice Initiative’s (EJI) opened the Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration and the National
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Black Subjectivity and the Origins of American Gynecology
In her new award-winning book, Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology, historian Deirdre Cooper Owens describes
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The Globalization of American Racial Exclusion
In hindsight, historians of American immigration will be pressed to name the first two decades of the twenty-first century as
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“Left Exposed to View!”: Black Women and Sexualized Violence
In May 1962, Malcolm X delivered a commanding speech with his now infamous lines regarding the positionality of Black women:
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