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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