African diaspora - AAIHS

What Obama’s Trip to Havana Revealed about Race in Cuba and the U.S.

May 5, 2016May 5, 2016 Devyn Spence Benson Afrxlatinidad, Barack Obama, black politics, Caribbean, Cuba

During his groundbreaking visit to Havana last month, President Barack Obama suggested that the embrace of U.S.-style democracy and capitalism

“Africa for the Africans”: The Expanding Field of Global Garveyism

May 2, 2016May 2, 2016 Keisha N. Blain black nationalism, Garveyism, Pan-Africanism, Universal Negro Improvement Association

Recently, the Global Garveyism conference took place at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. Organized by Professors Adam Ewing (Virginia

We Are Equal African Peoples

April 28, 2016April 28, 2016 Ibram X. Kendi #AAIHSRoundtable, #WeAreAnAfricanPeople, Pan-Africanism

This is the fourth day of our roundtable on Russell Rickford’s book, We Are an African People: Independent Education, Black

We Are An African People and the Dynamism of Black Power Studies

April 26, 2016April 26, 2016 Guest Poster #AAIHSRoundtable, #WeAreAnAfricanPeople, black intellectual history, black nationalism, Black Power Studies

This is the second day of our roundtable on Russell Rickford’s book, We Are an African People: Independent Education, Black

A Telenovela, Slavery, and the Diaspora

April 17, 2016April 15, 2016 Greg Childs Brazil, slavery

A Escrava Isaura, the 1875 novel by Bernardo Guimaraes, was one of a number of late 19th century works of