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Rosalyn Terborg-Penn’s African Feminist Theory and Praxis

October 21, 2019October 20, 2019 Sasha Turner #RosalynTerborgPenn, African Diaspora, black feminism, Black women, Caribbean, education, Gender, race, slavery

*This post is part of our online forum organized by Stephen G. Hall honoring the life and work of Dr. Rosalyn

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Transnational Legacies of Slavery and Revolution in ‘The Black Scholar’

September 18, 2019September 16, 2019 Cristina Mislán African Diaspora, Afro-Cubans, black internationalism, Black Power, Caribbean, Cuba, Pan-Africanism, race

Some months after visiting Havana, Cuba in late fall of 1976, Robert Chrisman — editor-in-chief of the journal The Black Scholar —

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“The Most Important Place in the World”: On Puerto Rico and the Freedom Struggle

August 2, 2019July 28, 2019 Dan Berger Activism, African Diaspora, black politics, black protest, Caribbean, colonialism, freedom, Politics, Puerto Rican history, Puerto Rico, Social Movements

Though the United States has colonized Puerto Rico since 1898, when the country took the island as booty in the

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The Common Wind of the African Diaspora

July 5, 2019July 5, 2019 Kevin Dawson academia, academic publishing, African Diaspora, black intellectual history, Caribbean, Cuba, Haiti, race, Resistance, slavery

Julius Scott’s The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution is one of the academy’s worst-kept secrets.

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Liberalism, Emancipation, and the Atlantic World

June 27, 2019June 26, 2019 Adriana Chira Activism, African Diaspora, black politics, capitalism, Caribbean, Haiti, nation, race, slavery

George Hackett’s trajectory simmered with the tensions that defined the Age of Emancipations. Hackett was born at the turn of

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