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#JPPseries @uncpress.bsky.social publish some of the most outstanding, cutting-edge history in the field right now. Honored and proud to be among so many distinguished scholars. Thank you, @dawnd.bsky.social, for the love this morning! 🥰

Midwest Unrest | Ashley Howard | University of North Carolina Press In the nation's so-called heartland, racism is sometimes subtler than in other parts of the country but just as insidious. When Black communities across the ...

In MIDWEST UNREST, Ashley Howard explores rebellions in Cincinnati, Omaha, and Milwaukee, paying particular attention to the ways that region, race, class, and gender all played critical and often overlapping roles in shaping Black people's resistance to racialized oppression. #JPPseries

Class Warfare in Black Atlanta | Augustus Wood | University of North Carolina Press Between 1966 and 2015, the city of Atlanta was transformed. In the late 1960s, Black politicians ascended to the top of the power structure for the first tim...

Gus Wood’s CLASS WARFARE IN BLACK ATLANTA traces the history of post–civil rights Black Atlanta through rigorous class analysis to reframe our understanding of contemporary Black urban life by highlighting the centrality of the dynamics of intraracial class conflict in urban space. #JPPseries

Poverty Rebels | Casey D. Nichols | University of North Carolina Press In 1960s Los Angeles, a powerful network within Black and Chicana/o organizations transformed the War on Poverty and Model Cities program. Black and Brown ac...

In 1960s Los Angeles, a powerful network within Black and Chicana/o organizations transformed the War on Poverty and Model Cities program. Casey Nichols examines the work of this network of collaborators she calls "poverty rebels.” #JPPseries

Fighting for Control | Lina-Maria Murillo | University of North Carolina Press The first birth control clinic in El Paso, Texas, opened in 1937. Since then, Mexican-origin women living in the border cities of El Paso and Ciudad Juárez ...

In FIGHTING FOR CONTROL, @drlmmurillo.bsky.social reveals how Mexican-origin women on both sides of the border fought to reclaim autonomy and care for themselves and their communities. #JPPseries

Carceral Apartheid | Brittany Friedman | University of North Carolina Press It is impossible to deny the impact of lies and white supremacy on the institutional conditions in US prisons. There is a particular power dynamic of racist ...

@curlyprofessor.bsky.social’s CARCERAL APARTHEID delves into how prisons suppress Black political movements, revealing the broader themes of deception, empire, corruption, and white supremacy in American mass incarceration. #JPPseries