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image Digital Humanities Land Acquisition and Dispossession Mapping the Homestead Act, 1863-1912 By University of Richmond and Julius Wilm Visualizing over time and space the more than 2.3 million claims and 900,000 "patents" granting…
image Digital Humanities Land and Legacy By Praxis Program at University of Virginia Library (Janet S. Dunkelbarger, Connor Kenaston, Natasha Roth-Rowland, Lauren Van Nest, Chloe Downe Wells) Investigating the University of Virginia’s and UVA Foundation’s land development and expansion…
Former slaves harvesting for their own profit. Corbis via Getty Images Web-articles Land loss has plagued black America since emancipation – is it time to look again at ‘black commons’ and collective ownership? By Julian Agyeman and Kofi Boone Published Underlying the recent unrest sweeping U.S. cities over police brutality is a fundamental…
Book Cover: Landscape and Race in the United States Books Landscape and Race in the United States By Richard Schein (Editor) Published Edited by Richard Schein, each essay is grounded in a particular location but all of the…
image Digital Humanities Lansing Urban Renewal Project By Michigan State University’s Residential College in the Arts and Humanities Student-led digital project that seeks to tell the stories of homeowners affected by Urban Renewal…
From a promotional pamphlet for Soul City, ca. mid-1970s. [Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture] Web-articles Learning from Soul City By Kofi Boone Published Half a century ago, a multiracial new town envisioned by a leading Black activist was one of the…
Journal Cover Journal Articles Legacies of Loss and Trauma, Healing and Redemption: Cape Town Live Art Festival By Ketu H. Katrak Published Performance, installation, and African-based ritual represent the body as a site of subversion,…
Little White Houses cover. Books Little White Houses: How the Postwar Home Constructed Race in America By Dianne Harris Published How the ordinary American house contributed to definitions of middle-class whiteness and an…
Living In, Living Out cover. Books Living In, Living Out: African American Domestics in Washington, D.C., 1910-1940 By Elizabeth Clark-Lewis Published In Living In, Living Out Elizabeth Clark-Lewis narrates the personal experiences of…
Living the California Dream: African American Leisure Sites during the Jim Crow Era book cover. Books Living the California Dream: African American Leisure Sites during the Jim Crow Era By Alison Rose Jefferson In Living the California Dream, Jefferson examines how African Americans pioneered America’s “…
Book Cover Books Love and Ethnology: the Colonial Dialectic of Sensitivity (after Hubert Fichte) By Diedrich Diederichsen (Editor) and Anselm Franke (Editor) Published Essays, artistic text contributions, and curatorial statements on the German writer Hubert Fichte's…
Journal Cover Journal Articles Lynching and the New South and Its Impact on the Historiography of Black Resistance to Lynching By Karlos K. Hill Published This brief essay identifies and puts into context some of the important interventions and…
Mabel O. Wilson, Nancy and George Rupp Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia GSAPP Courtesy Dario Calmese Web-articles Mabel O. Wilson is Updating the Narrative of American Architecture to Include Black Architects By Kimberly Dowdell Published A new book, an upcoming MoMA exhibition, and a recently completed memorial are informed by the…
Journal Cover Journal Articles Making Labor Visible in Historic Charleston By Leah Worthington， Rachel Donaldson， Kieran Taylor Published With millions of tourists visiting each year to see its historic architecture and landscaped…
American Studies Volume 57, Issue 4 (2012) cover. Journal Articles Making Slums and Suburbia in Black Washington During the Great Depression By Sandra R. Heard Published American Studies Volume 57, Issue 4 (2012).
Making the Second Ghetto cover. Books Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940-1960 By Arnold R. Hirsch Published "...in the post-depression years Chicago was a "pioneer in developing concepts and devices" for…
Making the Unequal Metropolis: School Desegregation and Its Limits cover. Books Making the Unequal Metropolis: School Desegregation and Its Limits By Ansley T. Erickson Published Taking Nashville as her focus, Erickson uncovers the hidden policy choices that have until now been…
Malcolm X, 1964 (Library of Congress) Other Malcolm X (May 19, 1925 - February 21, 1965) By National Arichives Catalog at National Archives on Malcolm X 
image Digital Humanities Mapping Black London By Northeastern University and New College of Humanities A powerful and visually impactful tool that demonstrates the long-range presence of non-white…
image Digital Humanities Mapping Black Towns By Mapping Black Towns "Data collection and digital mapping projecct sharing geographies, histories, and future…