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    Black Women Artists from the Zimmerli Art Museum

    When Rutgers professor Amber N. Wiley began teaching her African American Art class in 2018, she and her students made a shocking discovery. While the university’s Zimmerli Art Museum had over seventy thousand artworks in its collection, only one of the pieces on display was by a Black American woman. The students, who came from a variety of majors and reflected the ethnic diversity of New Jersey ... En savoir plus

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  • Model Schools in the Model City

    Race, Planning, and Education in the Nation’s Capital

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    Collections series Culture Politics & the Built Environment
    Finalist for the 2026 ASALH Book AwardAccess to educational resources has been a tool of liberation for Black Americans from the antebellum period to the present. With this book, Amber N. Wiley emphasizes the value of education as a means for social equality—Black Americans wanted the American Dream to apply to them, and equal opportunity for quality education was at the forefront of making that ... En savoir plus

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  • Chocolate City

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  • Unsettling the Great White North

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    From nineteenth-century public baths to today’s private backyard havens, swimming pools have long been a provocative symbol of American life. In this social and cultural history of swimming pools in the United States, Jeff Wiltse relates how, over the years, pools have served as asylums for the urban poor, leisure resorts for the masses, and private clubs for middle-class suburbanites. As sites of ... En savoir plus

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  • The World of Stephanie St. Clair

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