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Davarian L. Baldwin

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The Rise of the UniverCity

Historian Davarian Baldwin explains how universities have come to wield the kind of power that were once hallmarks of ruthless employers in company towns.

by Davarian L. Baldwin, Meagan Day via Jacobin on September 2, 2021
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Higher Education’s Racial Reckoning Reaches Far Beyond Slavery

Universities helped buttress a racist caste system well into the 20th century.

by Davarian L. Baldwin via Made By History on April 1, 2021

In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities

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Deborah Taylor Mapp at her home in the Broad Creek neighborhood of Norfolk, Va.

The Long History of Universities Displacing Black People

The expansion of higher education in Virginia uprooted hundreds of black families.

by Louis Hansen via The Chronicle of Higher Education on September 11, 2023

Christopher Newport University.

Erasing the “Black Spot”: How a Virginia College Expanded by Uprooting a Black Neighborhood

Sixty-plus years ago, the white leaders of Newport News, Virginia, seized the core of a thriving Black community to build a college.

by Brandi Kellam, Louis Hansen via ProPublica on September 5, 2023

White pillars broken in pieces, forming an X.

The Right Side of History

How should historians respond to the urgency of this current political moment?

by Emma Green via The New Yorker on March 7, 2023

From left to right, Langston Hughes with Charles S. Johnson; E. Franklin Frazier; Rudolph Fisher and Hubert T. Delaney.

Why Harlem? Considering the Site of “Civil Rights by Copyright,” 100 Years Later

The confluence of Black modernity, self-determinism, and belongingness of Harlem's housing.

by Bo McMillan via Literary Hub on February 13, 2023

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