Author of The Plunder of Black America: How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Made (2025) @yalepress. From Southern Maryland🍂. Teaches history in Arizona 🌵
Tempe, Arizona, USA
Joined March 2015
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@joelegoza on The Plunder of Black America in the @LAReviewofBooks "In Schermerhorn’s hands, this...takes on the flesh and blood of family life—stats become stories, and we must reckon with what happened [&] with the real people it happened to" lareviewofbooks.org/article/… @yalepress
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The first Colored Convention was held in Philadelphia in 1830. Mother Bethel AME Church will revive it this weekend.
For the first time in 50 years, the Convention is making a comeback to help combat the attack on Black history and civil rights.
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Black farmers once owned fourteen million more acres of America than they do today. Where did it go? Rigged courts, denied loans, partition sales where strangers forced families to auction their own land.
Acre by acre, deed by deed. That's not just land. That's the generational wealth your family was supposed to inherit. We traced how they did it in our book — 150 Crimes Against Black America They Never Answered For. Grab it through the link below. savvypurchase.samcart.com/pr…
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Essentially a review essay on Calvin Schermerhorn's 'The Plunder of Black America: How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Made (@yalepress) and @andreperryedu's 'Black Power Scorecard: Measuring the Racial Gap and What We Can Do to Close It' (@MetropolitanBks)
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"Several chapters are masterpieces, bringing readers into the family, and allowing us to reexamine the lives that were woven into the tapestry of American history."
Joel Edward Goza reviews Calvin Schermerhorn's "The Plunder of Black America." lareviewofbooks.org/article/…
ALT The cover of The Plunder of Black America against a background
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Did you know thriving Black towns once flourished across America—only to be erased from history? From Tulsa’s Greenwood (Black Wall Street) to Rosewood, Florida, and Wilmington, North Carolina, Black communities built banks, schools, and booming businesses worth millions
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Rendre l'héritage: La restitution des biens culturels à la République Démocratique du Congo par
Donatien Dibwe dia Mwembu academie-editions.be/arts/64…
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Cool to see @mattdelmont’s amazing Until the Last Gun is Silent at our local Barnes & Noble! barnesandnoble.com/w/until-t…
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1/3) 🧵I am co-editor of the University of Georgia Press book series Race in the Atlantic World, along with historians Toby Green and Brooke Newman. We are welcoming proposals of academic monographs and edited volumes. Here are the series great titles!
Cool to see @mattdelmont’s amazing Until the Last Gun is Silent at our local Barnes & Noble! barnesandnoble.com/w/until-t…
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Why do Latina/o households have just 22 cents on the dollar compared to white ones? "The project demonstrates how wealth inequality is the cumulative result of systems that have limited access to opportunity across generations." @UCLA #racialwealthgap
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Why do Latina/o households have just 22 cents on the dollar compared to white ones? "The project demonstrates how wealth inequality is the cumulative result of systems that have limited access to opportunity across generations." @UCLA #racialwealthgap
latino.ucla.edu/research/his…
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@LarryGlickman's provocative piece in @TheAtlantic: "For Trump and a group of conservative[s...] to demand now that courts ignore the legal consensus of the past century-plus is effectively to command Americans to...engage in an act of historical amnesia." theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0…
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Check out “Until the Last Gun is Silent” by @mattdelmont—a brilliant, searing history of Black soldiers & anti-war activists struggling against racism & charges of betrayal to highlight the battle for justice at the heart of America’s Vietnam War penguinrandomhouse.com/books… #history
Check out “Until the Last Gun is Silent” by @mattdelmont—a brilliant, searing history of Black soldiers & anti-war activists struggling against racism & charges of betrayal to highlight the battle for justice at the heart of America’s Vietnam War penguinrandomhouse.com/books… #history
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Once unknown sitter, she has now a name: Eleonora Susette
Jeremias Schultz. Portrait of Eleonora Susette, 1775. Oil on canvas. Overall: 80 Ă— 56.2 cm. Art Gallery of Ontario.
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Happy #pubday to "Out of Virginia: Black Americans' Search for Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Liberia" by Joseph P. Stinnett!
The remarkable journey of a group of Black emigrants from the American South to Liberia after emancipation
#booktwt #blackhistory
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On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments about birthright citizenship. Here, for the NYTimes and with Kate Masur, I offer a view of what those of you who think historically should be listening for. nytimes.com/2026/03/30/opini…
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Folks its Pub Day for this great collection of essays to mark the 250th of the American Revolution. Happy to be included with this stellar group of historians. Get your copy today from UNC Press!
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✨We are pleased to announce that this year’s winner of the Pauli Murray Book Prize is Dr. Jarvis C. McInnis, author of Afterlives of the Plantation: Plotting Agrarian Futures in the Global Black South! 👏🏾👏🏾
@ColumbiaUP @DukeU @Duke_English @ProfMcInnis
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