urban history - AAIHS

Redlining, Predatory Inclusion, and Housing Segregation

March 10, 2021March 19, 2021 Paige Glotzer #AAIHSRoundtable, #RaceForProfit, economic history, housing, race, racism, segregation, urban history

*This post is part of our roundtable on Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s ‘Race for Profit’ From the presidential debates to anti-racist reading lists,

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

A Flash of Life and Light

May 20, 2020May 20, 2020 Kevin Quashie #WaywardLives, black feminism, Black Studies, Black women, blackness, Gender, Literary studies, literature, race, urban history

*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with the Journal of African American History. How to contend with

Recovering the Lives of City Women

May 19, 2020May 19, 2020 LaShawn Harris #politicsofrespectability, #WaywardLives, archives, black feminism, Black Queers, Black women, freedom, fugitivity, geography, sexuality, urban history

*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with the Journal of African American History. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments is

Chicago at the Center

February 26, 2020February 23, 2020 Ansley T. Erickson #AAIHSRoundtable, #APoliticalEducation, Activism, Black political thought, black politics, Black women, economic justice, education, education reform, urban history

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Elizabeth Todd-Breland’s A Political Education: Black Politics and Education Reform in Chicago Since