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Segregated Soldiers: African-Americans, Civil Rights and the U.S. Military

About: Christine Knauer, Let Us Fight as Free Men: Black Soldiers and Civil Rights. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014, 352 p., $49.95.

by Olivier Burtin, 19 January 2015

How can you fight for your country while being denied citizenship? Christine Knauer uncovers the paradox of African-American soldiers in the twentieth century, and their role in the history of (...)
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Ferguson and the New Black Condition in the United States

by François Bonnet & Clément Théry, 24 November 2014

Michael Brown’s death and the Ferguson unrest signal a change in the condition of Black people in American society since 2000. This new condition is marked by the culmination of the penal state’s (...)
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My Crystal Ball is Cloudy: The Historian as Public Intellectual

An Interview with Thomas J. Sugrue

by Thomas Grillot & Pauline Peretz, 13 November 2014

How is history relevant to current debates about race, economic inequality or the national narrative? A renowned historian of urban crises and segregation, Thomas Sugrue proposes an answer that (...)
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Two cities with School Segregation? 2/2

Paris

by Marco Oberti, 27 April 2012

French programs of “positive discrimination” are supposed to help open elite education to socially disadvantaged students. While challenging the idea that diversity is truly promoted in the United (...)
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Two cities with School Segregation? 1/2

Chicago

by Marco Oberti, 26 April 2012

French programs of “positive discrimination” are supposed to help open elite education to socially disadvantaged students. While challenging the idea that diversity is truly promoted in the United (...)

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