African diaspora - AAIHS

#ASWAD2015 and the (Re)formation of Scholarly Community

Earlier this month, I had the great opportunity to attend the biennial meeting of ASWAD, the Association for the Study

In 1798, Luís Gonzaga, a free man of African descent was arrested for promoting rebellion against slavery and colonialism in

This is a guest post by Celeste Henery, a Research Associate at the University of Texas at Austin (UT) in the

On June 15, 1969 the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, J. Edgar Hoover, famously declared that the

Often times when students hear me lecture about the famed Brazilian quilombo (runaway settlement) of Palmares, they want to know