African diaspora - AAIHS

Haiti, Cultural Politics, and US Occupation

April 18, 2018April 24, 2018 Karen Cook Bell black intellectual history, Haiti, imperialism, literature, poetry

Haiti’s intellectual dissidents played an instrumental role in advocating the Haitianization of Haiti–the embrace of Haitian culture, peasant life, and

British Culpability in the Trading and Enslavement of Africans

April 12, 2018April 24, 2018 Sasha Turner Blacks in Britain, Caribbean, reparations, slave trade, slavery

“In 1833, Britain used £20 million, 40 per cent of its national budget, to buy freedom for all slaves in

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela: Revolutionary Who Kept the Spirit of Resistance Alive

April 7, 2018April 13, 2018 Shireen Hassim South Africa

No other woman – in life and after – occupies the place that Winnie Madikizela-Mandela does in South African politics.

Plantation Frolic on Christmas Eve,’ from Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, 1857 (Source: Library of Congress).

Enslaved People and Divorce in the African Diaspora

March 31, 2018April 2, 2018 Tyler Parry African Diaspora, Marriage, slavery

Numerous books and articles analyze the concept of “slave marriage,” but other than a few exceptional works, the historical literature

Stokely Carmichael of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee speaks at Florida A&M University, 1967. Source: Black on Campus.

The Absence of Political Economy in African Diaspora Studies

March 20, 2018March 26, 2018 Charisse Burden-Stelly African Diaspora, Black Studies, education, education reform, Pan-Africanism

The Black Studies movement, inaugurated in the late 1960s by student- and community-based demands for a “more relevant education,” represented