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Race Women Internationalists and Global Black Freedom Struggles

October 30, 2018November 3, 2018 Shelby M. Sinclair Activism, African Diaspora, black feminism, black intellectual history, black internationalism, Black women, Caribbean, decolonization, Gender, race, racism

In her 1932 article entitled “The Awakening of Race Consciousness among Black Students,” Afro-Jamaican intellectual Una Marson advanced a theory

‘Radical Intellect’: An Interview with Historian Christopher M. Tinson

October 29, 2018November 5, 2018 Rebecca Brenner Graham Activism, black intellectual history, black politics, black press, primary source

In today’s post, blogger Rebecca Brenner interviews Christopher M. Tinson about his new book, Radical Intellect: Liberator Magazine and Black Activism in the 1960s. Tinson

Beyond the Black Paradigm? Queer Afro-diasporic Strategies

October 22, 2018November 3, 2018 Fatima El-Tayeb African Diaspora, Black Europe, Black Europe Series, Black German, Black Queers, blackness, Racial Capitalism

*This post is part of our new blog series on Black Europe. This series, edited by Kira Thurman and Anne-Marie Angelo, explores what it means to

Slavery and a Transnational History of Reparations

October 16, 2018October 17, 2018 Guy Emerson Mount Activism, African Diaspora, black intellectual history, reparations, slave trade, slavery

Reparations for slavery are arguably the biggest global question facing the African Diaspora in the twenty-first-century. In her new book,

“Chocolate City, Chessboard City”: Black Vitality in Renaissance Seville

October 16, 2018October 17, 2018 Nicholas R. Jones African Diaspora, Black Europe, blackness, race

Seville, Spain at the height of the Renaissance bustled like a chocolate city–to borrow from Marcus Anthony Hunter and Zandria F. Robinson‘s masterful