African diaspora - AAIHS

Black Women, West Indian Networks, and US immigration

“I was numb, but it was from not knowing just what this new life would hold for me.” —Jamaica Kincaid, Lucy

**This essay is a work of satire, modeled after the late Binyavanga Wainaina’s “How to Write About Africa.” Much like

In April of this year at a press conference staged in front of the National Mall, Democratic Party politicians Ed

*This post is part of our roundtable “Digital Black Atlantics.” The use of software and visualizations has never been so prominent in

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