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Black Trans Feminism: Marquis Bey interviewed by Guy Emerson Mount

April 15, 2022April 14, 2022 Guy Emerson Mount abolition, black feminism, black radical tradition, Black Trans Feminism, feminism, interview

In this interview I speak with Marquis Bey about their new book Black Trans Feminism which takes a broadly abolitionist

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State v. Mann: Lydia’s Journey

February 23, 2022February 22, 2022 Sally Greene Black women, Freedom Suits, law, North Carolina, slavery

Naturally, we don’t know her full name. That we know her at all is only because of a gun aimed

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Resistance Discourse of Nineteenth Century Black Intellectuals

November 5, 2021November 4, 2021 Anna Stibbe #BlackAtlantics, abolition, Black Atlantic, Black Digital Humanities, Digital Humanities, slavery

*This post is part of our roundtable “Digital Black Atlantics.” At the “National Negro Convention” in Buffalo of 1843, Black

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Black Atlantic Journeys in the Digital

November 2, 2021November 4, 2021 Annette Joseph-Gabriel #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackAtlantics, African Diaspora, black intellectual history, black internationalism

*This post is part of our roundtable “Digital Black Atlantics.” “What would it mean to read diaspora spatially? How might

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Policing Black Freedom

August 5, 2021August 5, 2021 Philip V. McHarris #contestedcitizenship, Activism, police violence, Resistance, slavery, W.E.B. Du Bois, white supremacy

*This post is part of our roundtable on “Contested Citizenship,” organized in collaboration with the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study

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