Readings on the History of the Atlantic World
Several months ago, Five Books published a list of 5 books on the Atlantic World, which included some notable omissions.
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Caribbean
“They’re Chatterboxes with their Feet”: Black Dances in Early Modern Spain
In his Premática del Tiempo (1628; 1648), Francisco de Quevedo berates Black African slave culture flourishing on Spanish soil. What
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‘The Untold Story of Marcus Garvey’: Interview with Filmmaker Roy T. Anderson
In today’s post, Christopher Shell, PhD Student in History at Michigan State University, interviews filmmaker Roy T. Anderson about his forthcoming
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‘Sexuality and Slavery’: A New Book on Intimate Histories in the Americas
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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Race Women Internationalists and Global Black Freedom Struggles
In her 1932 article entitled “The Awakening of Race Consciousness among Black Students,” Afro-Jamaican intellectual Una Marson advanced a theory
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