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African Studies Colloquium Series with Mhoze Chikowero, Wednesday October, 23 at 3:30 pm in Minor 110

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Enroll now in AAS 3671: History and Memory of the US Civil Rights Movement: A Southern Civil Rights Tour, with Religious Studies professor Jalane Schmidt

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Fit Citizens

University of North Carolina Press (2023)

Trafficking in Antiblackness

Duke University Press (2023)

Black Patience

Julius Fleming, Jr.

NYU Press (2022)