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Race, Medicine, and the Origins of American Psychiatry

September 8, 2020September 17, 2020 Natalie Shibley race, Racial Violence, South, teaching

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, American physicians developed and promoted biological notions of racial difference that have

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Realism and Melodrama in Stevedore

July 16, 2020July 20, 2020 Kristen Wright #AAIHSRoundtable, #RadicalBlackTheatre, race, Racial Violence

*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with The Journal of Civil and Human Rights on Kate Dossett’s Radical

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Loop/Lapse/Loss: Untimely Dispatches from a Sea of Fragments

July 9, 2020July 5, 2020 John Murillo III #NewBlackSurrealisms, blackness, police violence, policing, race, Racial Violence, racism, Sandra Bland, white supremacy

*This post is part of our New Black Surrealisms series organized by Tiffany E. Barber and Jerome Dent. I do not

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An Appeal –Bring the Maroon to the Foreground in Black Intellectual History

June 19, 2020June 17, 2020 Yannick Marshall black intellectual history, marronage, race, Racial Violence, racism, Resistance, violence, white supremacy

Within the larger narrative of slave resistance, maroons offered a unique experiment. They created and exposed to whites and blacks

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Steeped in the Blood: On The May 15th, 1970 Jackson State Killings

May 15, 2020May 14, 2020 Brandon James Render Mississippi, police violence, Racial Violence, student activism

On the night of May 14, 1970, Phillip Gibbs and James Earl Green made their way to Alexander Hall, a

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