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Louise Thompson Patterson and Black Radical Politics

May 12, 2018May 26, 2018 Charisse Burden-Stelly black radical tradition, Black radicalism, Black women

On September 16, 1984, exactly one week after Louise Thompson Patterson turned eighty-three years old, an extravaganza was held in

James Baldwin and the 1980s: A New Book on the Iconic Writer’s Last Decade

May 2, 2018May 5, 2018 Phillip Luke Sinitiere black intellectual history, Gender

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

The Empire Windrush. Source: Caribbean National Weekly.

The Windrush Crisis and Britain’s Memory Problem

May 1, 2018May 5, 2018 Adam Thomas Blacks in Britain, Immigration, police brutality, slave trade

Black Britons have occupied a prominent place in national and global politics in recent weeks. The British government has been criticized

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

Re-Writing Black Gendered Stories

April 17, 2018April 21, 2018 Celeste Henery black feminism, Black women, blackness, Gender

For some years, I’ve written social histories of Black men on death row. The objective is to provide a social