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Q&A with Joe William Trotter, Jr., author of "Building the Black City"
Nov 08 2024
In "Building the Black City," Joe William Trotter, Jr., traces the growth of Black cities and political power from the preindustrial era to the present.
Florida’s Racist African American History Standards Reveal a Long History of Slavery Apologism
Apr 05 2024
By Bayley Marquez, author of Plantation Pedagogy: The Violence of Schooling across Black and Indigenous SpaceIn the summer of 2023, as I was finishing reviewing the copy edits of my manuscript for Plantation Pedagogy, news sources began reporting on the controversy over Florida’s state standards
When Do You Stop Arriving?: African American Histories in Rural California
Mar 01 2023
Nine young men and women sitting in a field, Tulare County, 1912 [229]. Roberts Family Papers, African American Museum & Library at Oakland.California History recently published its second special issue on the history of African Americans in California. This issue arrived in a moment of prof
The Enduring Relevance of Bob Blauner’s Black Lives, White Lives
Apr 04 2022
Now with a new foreword, this timely reissue features a remarkable collection of oral histories that trace three decades of turbulent race relations and social change in the United States for a new generation of activists.One evening in 1955, Howard Spence, a Mississippi field representative
Excerpt from The Night Malcolm X Spoke at the Oxford Union
May 21 2021
For Malcolm X Day, UC Press is featuring an excerpt from The Night Malcolm X Spoke at the Oxford Union by Stephen Tuck. Less than three months before he was assassinated, Malcolm X spoke at the Oxford Union—the most prestigious student debating organization in the United Kingdom. Tuck uses this even
Atonement: What Reparations Can Look Like in 2019
Jun 18 2019
The fundamental purpose for redressing atrocities is to accentuate a common humanity between perpetrator and victims.Roy L. Brooks, author of Atonement and Forgiveness: A New Model for Black ReparationsAn issue sure to be part of the 2020 election cycle is HR 40, the commission to study reparati