Haiti and Black Internationalism in the Twenty-First Century
*This post is part of our online roundtable on Brandon R. Byrd’s The Black Republic. African Americans’ tenuous relationship to American
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Black Political Thought
The Meaning and Significance of Haiti in African American Studies
*This post is part of our online roundtable on Brandon R. Byrd’s The Black Republic. Of the “idea of Haiti,” historian
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“We Have Not Yet Forgiven Haiti For Being Black”
*This post is part of our online roundtable on Brandon R. Byrd’s The Black Republic. On January 2, 1893, eighty-nine
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Silencing Black Radicalism Since the Cold War
As the recent election has shown, anti-communism is alive and well in the United States. Donald Trump and other conservatives
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Amiri Baraka, Black Music, and Black Modernity
I first encountered Amiri Baraka in Fred Moten’s In The Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition. I know
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