Revolving Doors of Fugitivity: Marronage and the Military
In October 1776, the governor of the Brazilian city Salvador da Bahia sent out letters encouraging municipal councils, landowners, captains
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African diaspora
Erna Brodber and Pan-Africanism in Post-Independence Jamaica
*This is the fifth post in a new blog series on Women, Gender and Pan-Africanism edited by Keisha N. Blain.
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Teaching Quilombismo: An Afro-Brazilian Political Philosophy
In 1980, Abdias do Nascimento, one of Brazil’s greatest black activists and intellectuals, published a seminal essay titled “Quilombismo: An Afro-Brazilian
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Beyond Négritude: Francophone African Women’s Pan-Africanism
*This is the fourth post in a new blog series on Women, Gender and Pan-Africanism edited by Keisha N. Blain.
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#BrazilFreedomSchool, Anti-Black Violence, and the Rio Olympics: An Interview with Christen Smith
This month I interviewed Professor Christen Smith (@profsassy), Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies and Anthropology at University
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