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"Cruelties of slavery." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1835-05.

Distinguishing Abolition from Reform

September 24, 2020September 22, 2020 Sasha Turner #CapitalismandSlavery, abolition, African Diaspora, Black political thought, black politics, capitalism, Caribbean, colonialism, freedom, imperialism, race, slavery

*This essay is part of our online forum on Eric Williams’ Capitalism and Slavery (1944), organized by historian Sasha Turner. The forum is in

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1619?

January 14, 2020January 12, 2020 Sasha Turner africa, African Diaspora, archives, Historical Memory, slave trade, slavery

We are living in a “memory boom” he says. From Charleston to New York, the national mall and university halls,

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Rosalyn Terborg-Penn’s African Feminist Theory and Praxis

October 21, 2019October 20, 2019 Sasha Turner #RosalynTerborgPenn, African Diaspora, black feminism, Black women, Caribbean, education, Gender, race, slavery

*This post is part of our online forum organized by Stephen G. Hall honoring the life and work of Dr. Rosalyn

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. "Funeral of nineteen year old Negro saw mill worker in Heard County, Georgia, May 1941." New York Public Library Digital Collections.

Death, Grieving, and the Necessity of History

June 17, 2019June 9, 2019 Sasha Turner Black Death Ideology, Black women, Caribbean, mourning

“You have been complaining at lot about being cold these days.” My dear friend, Deirdre Cooper Owens (Dee-Dee) said to

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More Than Just Words: Taking Antiracism Seriously

December 10, 2018December 24, 2018 Sasha Turner black intellectual history, race, racism, teaching

From bumper stickers and social media hashtags and memes, to think tanks and think pieces, the concept ‘antiracist’ has saturated

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