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Slavery and a Transnational History of Reparations

October 16, 2018October 17, 2018 Guy Emerson Mount Activism, African Diaspora, black intellectual history, reparations, slave trade, slavery

Reparations for slavery are arguably the biggest global question facing the African Diaspora in the twenty-first-century. In her new book,

Statues, Symbolism, and White Supremacy

October 5, 2018October 8, 2018 Devyn Spence Benson African Diaspora, black protest, Black radicalism, Caribbean, Cuba, Resistance, white supremacy

Last month, protesters at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, the state’s flagship campus, surprised the nation by toppling the

Marcus Garvey’s Vision of Pan-Africanism

September 14, 2018September 18, 2018 Rupert Lewis Caribbean, Cuba, garvey, Garveyism, Universal Negro Improvement Association

This is an excerpt from Rupert Lewis’s Marcus Garvey (University of the West Indies Press, 2017). The book is part of the University

Cuba and the Making of a United States Left

September 14, 2018September 16, 2018 Karen Dubinsky Afro-Cubans, Cuba

As revolutions go, the Cuban Revolution had it all: handsome masculine icons toppling a ruthless U.S.-backed dictator against dramatic backdrops

Online Roundtable: Keisha N. Blain’s ‘Set the World on Fire’

September 10, 2018October 18, 2018 AAIHS Editors Activism, black internationalism, black politics, Black women, black women's internationalism, Politics, Set the World on Fire

September 24-28, 2018 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is collaborating with the Journal of