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An Appeal –Bring the Maroon to the Foreground in Black Intellectual History

June 19, 2020June 17, 2020 Yannick Marshall black intellectual history, marronage, race, Racial Violence, racism, Resistance, violence, white supremacy

Within the larger narrative of slave resistance, maroons offered a unique experiment. They created and exposed to whites and blacks

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Revisiting Palmares: Maroon Communities in Brazil (Celeste Henery)

November 9, 2015April 24, 2016 Guest Poster Brazil

This is a guest post by Celeste Henery, a Research Associate at the University of Texas at Austin (UT) in the

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African Americans and the First Black Republic

September 25, 2024September 21, 2024 Sherri V. Cummings 1 Comment
black protest, Haiti, Haitian Revolution

It is difficult to talk about Haiti. For the past two months the island nation has been mired in violence

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Traditions of Resistance in the Black Diaspora

September 24, 2024September 21, 2024 Christina Proenza-Coles 2 Comments
Activism, black internationalism, Black radicalism

African resistance to American slavery originated at the moment African slavery in the Americas began. The first recorded enslaved Africans

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A Creative-Theoretical Immersion into Black Radical Intellectual Thought, Part 2

August 27, 2024August 13, 2024 Carole Boyce Davies 0 Comments
#AAIHSRoundtable, #TheDialecticIsInTheSea, black radical tradition, Black women, Brazil

This post is part of our roundtable on The Dialectic is in the Sea. Beatriz Nascimento thus provides some significant

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