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The Roots of Racial and Spatial Inequality

March 9, 2021March 19, 2021 Kimberley S. Johnson #AAIHSRoundtable, #RaceForProfit, capitalism, class, economic history, housing, race, racism, segregation, white supremacy

*This post is part of our roundtable on Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s ‘Race for Profit’ The cover of Businessweek’s February 13, 2013 issue

The American Dream and the Urban Crisis

March 8, 2021March 19, 2021 Julia Rabig #RaceForProfit, Black women, capitalism, civil rights, economic history, Gender, housing, race, racism, segregation, urban history

*This post is part of our roundtable on Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s ‘Race for Profit’ For decades, historians have chronicled manifestations of systemic

Civil Rights Activism in the “Jim Crow North”

August 20, 2020August 27, 2020 Matthew F. Delmont New York, segregation

Where did Jim Crow segregation and civil rights activism take place? A great deal hinges on how this question gets

The Black Freedom Struggle of the North

August 20, 2020August 17, 2020 Joshua Clark Davis segregation

Historians have produced a remarkable body of literature reappraising the civil rights movement in the last two decades. And still,

Housing Discrimination in the Jim Crow US and The Case for Reparations

February 4, 2020February 2, 2020 AAIHS Editors housing, segregation, urban history

Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Curated