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The Race of Disaster: Black Communities and the Crisis in Puerto Rico

April 17, 2019August 12, 2022 Hilda Lloréns African Diaspora, capitalism, Puerto Rico, Race and Economic History, Racial Capitalism

In this post, looking at the lives of Afro-Puerto Rican coastal foragers, I problematize the “disaster capitalism” orthodoxy, to probe

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Politics, Public History, and Memory: An Interview with Niya Bates

April 17, 2019August 12, 2022 J. T. Roane Historical Memory, historical preservation, Public History, slavery

In today’s post, senior editor J. T. Roane interviews Niya Bates, a native of Charlottesville, Virginia and a two-time graduate of the

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Hip-Hop in the Trump Era

April 12, 2019August 12, 2022 Bianki Torres black intellectual history, capitalism, music, race, racism, Resistance, white supremacy

I found out about Kanye West’s October 2018 meeting with Donald Trump through memes on social media. At first, I

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Race, Shock, and Social Protest: An Interview with Qiana Whitted

April 10, 2019August 12, 2022 Julian Chambliss #comicsandrace, black protest, racism

This interview is derived from a conversation between Julian Chambliss and Qiana Whitted about her new book EC Comics: Race, Shock,

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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

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