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Women and Emancipation: An Interview with Erica Ball, Tatiana Seijas, and Terri Snyder

January 25, 2021January 21, 2021 Tyler Parry Activism, African Diaspora, archives, Black women, Gender, Resistance, slavery

In today’s post, senior editor Tyler D. Parry interviews Erica L. Ball, Tatiana Seijas, and Terri L. Snyder on their

Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century France

January 22, 2021January 20, 2021 Erica Johnson Edwards African Diaspora, Black women, Gender, race

Robin Mitchell’s preface to Vénus Noire: Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century France is extremely moving. She begins with

African Americans, Black Internationalism, and the Fate of Haiti

December 10, 2020January 11, 2021 Christina Davidson #TheBlackRepublic, African Diaspora, black internationalism, black radical tradition, Caribbean, Haiti, Resistance

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Brandon R. Byrd’s The Black Republic. From the outside looking in, there

The Meaning and Significance of Haiti in African American Studies

December 8, 2020January 11, 2021 Chelsea Stieber #TheBlackRepublic, African Diaspora, black intellectual history, Caribbean, Haiti, white supremacy

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Brandon R. Byrd’s The Black Republic. Of the “idea of Haiti,” historian

Kwame Nkrumah and Decolonial Imagination

October 9, 2020October 13, 2020 Dan Magaziner Ghana

Historian Jeffrey Ahlman talks with Dan Magaziner about Nkrumahism’s shifting forms, and its influence on contemporary decolonization movements. We have