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Between Diasporic Consciousness and Cultural Appropriation

Last month, writer Zipporah Gene, of Nigerian descent, set off a firestorm when she accused African Americans of “culturally appropriating”

Few images define the haunting terror of the September 11, 2001, attacks better than the picture of Marcy Borders. Borders,

As a result of events in Ferguson related to the death of Michael Brown, last summer Georgetown University history professor

This year marked ten years since Hurricane Katrina made landfall. To say New Orleans and the entire Gulf Coast would

*This is a guest post from Dr. Tony Laing, a Postdoctoral Associate at New York University’s Research Alliance for New