Why White Southern Conservatives Need to Defend Confederate Monuments
Modern debates over Confederate monuments are not merely concerned with culture, historical memory, or racism. For many monument defenders, there
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white supremacy
Film Blackness, Hollywood Whiteness
“What if black film could be something other than embodied? What if black film was immaterial and bodiless? What if
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Black Charleston and the Battle over Confederate Statues
On January 9, 2018, the Charleston City Council deferred voting on a proposed new plaque for the John C. Calhoun
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The Historical Erasure of Violence Against Black Women
The #MeToo movement and the recent attention to Recy Taylor’s 1944 rape has drawn much needed attention to the consistent
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Prison Power: A New Book on the Role of Prisons in Black Liberation Struggles
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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