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American Founders: A New Book on the African Diaspora and New World Freedom

April 19, 2019August 12, 2022 Skyler Gordon African Diaspora, black politics, black protest, civil rights, race, racism, Resistance, slavery

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

Race and the Politics of Knowledge Production in African Studies

April 8, 2019August 12, 2022 Marius Kothor africa, African Diaspora, black intellectual history, black politics, Black Studies, education, Pan-Africanism, race, racism, white supremacy

In the United States, African scholars are conspicuously underrepresented in the field of African Studies. For years, Black scholars have

The Roots of Antiblackness in the US and Brazil

March 28, 2019August 12, 2022 Kwame Holmes black feminism, black politics, black protest, Brazil, police brutality, police violence, Politics, Racial Violence, racism

At its core The Denial of Antiblackness: Multiracial Redemption & Black Suffering by João Vargas proposes an intriguing methodological question: Is

Rethinking Black Life on Turtle Island

March 27, 2019August 12, 2022 Rachel Zellars African Diaspora, Canada, Resistance, slavery

The history of Black peoples in Canada prior to the mid-nineteenth century is a complex and transnational story. In popular

On the Blackness of Flamenco

March 26, 2019August 12, 2022 Nicholas R. Jones African Diaspora, Black Europe, culture, dance

Bubbling with duende—the flamenco lexicon for expressing a performer’s enchanting spirit, graceful power, and soulful it-factor—K. Meira Goldberg’s Sonidos Negros: On