African diaspora - AAIHS

Remembering Malcolm

February 19, 2017February 22, 2017 Garrett Felber #RememberingMalcolm, Malcolm X

This week on Black Perspectives, we mark the 52nd anniversary of Malcolm X’s assassination with a week-long forum, “Remembering Malcolm,”

State Violence and the Canudos Massacre in Brazil

February 18, 2017February 20, 2017 Greg Childs Afro-Brazilians, Brazil, freedom, marronage

In April of 1897, General Artur Oscar de Andrade Guimarães began preparing for an expedition that would carry he and

Remembering Marcus Garvey Through Reggae

February 6, 2017June 26, 2017 Quito J. Swan black radical tradition, Black radicalism, Garveyism, Marcus Garvey, music

Listen to the music. February 6 marks the birthday of Bob Marley. Born in Jamaica in 1945, the Reggae icon

Cosmological Queerness Across the Yoruba Diaspora

February 5, 2017April 2, 2018 James Padilioni Jr Afro-Brazilians, Black Queers, Brazil, religion, slave trade, slavery

The constellating topics of homosexuality and masculinity are perennial to Black American discourses. In contemporary debates, the chorus shouting loudest

Afro-Brazilian Feminists and the Fight for Racial and Gender Inclusion

February 2, 2017March 10, 2017 Jaimee A. Swift Afro-Brazilians, Black women, Brazil, Gender, Latin America

In 1979, Afro-Brazilian feminist Leila Gonzalez wrote a critique of the National Encounter of Women that drew much-needed attention to