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“If They Take You In The Morning”: M4BL and the Palestine Justice Movement

July 8, 2020July 5, 2020 Taurean J. Webb black internationalism, black lives matter, black radical tradition, Black radicalism, Palestine, police violence, Resistance

“Eyad was killed and he didn’t even know what his crime was….he was dreaming of becoming a chef’s assistant. He

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Power to the People: Attica and Radical Reconstruction

June 5, 2020June 5, 2020 Russell Rickford carceral state, criminal justice system, mass incarceration, Resistance

This week we’re revisiting Heather Ann Thompson’s Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy (Pantheon Books, 2016). Today

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Runaway Genres and the Global Legacy of Slavery

April 1, 2020March 29, 2020 Iana Robitaille literature, slavery

In her sweeping monograph Runaway Genres: The Global Afterlives of Slavery, Yogita Goyal takes up the legacy of the American

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Reimagining Liberation: A New Book about Black Women who Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire

March 20, 2020March 15, 2020 AAIHS Editors black internationalism, Black women, Caribbean, Pan-Africanism

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

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‘Racialization works differently here in Puerto Rico, do not bring your U.S.-centric ideas about race here!’

March 3, 2020March 1, 2020 Hilda Lloréns Activism, African Diaspora, Afro-Latin, Afro-Latinx, Afrxlatinidad, black internationalism, Caribbean, Latin America, Puerto Rican history, Puerto Rico, racism

This title is a variation of a statement I have heard during the last two decades as a professional anthropologist.

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