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An Often-Forgotten Corner of the African Diaspora: Afro-Caribbean Panamanians

May 31, 2023May 30, 2023 Paul Joseph López Oro #AAIHSRoundtable, #PanamaInBlack, African Diaspora, black internationalism

This post is part of our online roundtable on Kaysha Corinealdi’s Panama in Black. Central America’s Caribbean coasts are on the

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The Common Wind of the African Diaspora

July 5, 2019July 5, 2019 Kevin Dawson academia, academic publishing, African Diaspora, black intellectual history, Caribbean, Cuba, Haiti, race, Resistance, slavery

Julius Scott’s The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution is one of the academy’s worst-kept secrets.

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American Founders: A New Book on the African Diaspora and New World Freedom

April 19, 2019August 12, 2022 Skyler Gordon African Diaspora, black politics, black protest, civil rights, race, racism, Resistance, slavery

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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Gerald Horne’s Insurgent African Diaspora

August 20, 2018August 27, 2018 Jessica Marie Johnson

*Editor’s Note: This week we are publishing some of our favorite BP articles. We begin with this essay by blogger Jessica

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Aquatic Culture in the African Diaspora

June 19, 2018July 2, 2018 J. T. Roane African Diaspora, culture, slave trade, slavery

On Sunday April 17, 2016, my extended family in Tidewater Virginia was struck by the tragedy of a double loss.

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