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The Historical Hatred of Haiti

December 18, 2017December 21, 2017 Ameer Hasan Loggins Haiti, Haitian Revolution

In 2016, while campaigning in Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood, Donald Trump told a group of Haitians that, “We have a

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Dismantling Whiteness as the Beauty Standard

December 9, 2017December 14, 2017 Sasha Turner African Diaspora, Black women, blackness, Colorism, Resistance, slavery, white supremacy

Miss Jamaica Davina Bennett rejected Eurocentric beauty ideals when she sported her afro at this year’s Miss Universe Pageant. Bennett had

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Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom

December 8, 2017December 11, 2017 Keisha N. Blain black feminism, black nationalism, Black women, Pan-Africanism

This is an excerpt from Keisha N. Blain’s Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle

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The Connections Between Urban Development and Colonialism

November 27, 2017December 1, 2017 Paige Glotzer capitalism, colonialism, gentrification, Race and Economic History, Racial Violence, racism, segregation

This post is part of our online forum on Race, Property, and Economic History. “It’s kind of manifest destiny…now the marketplace and the city has

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Black Power Meets Pan-Africanism in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

November 13, 2017November 15, 2017 Peter Cole black internationalism, black nationalism, black radical tradition, Pan-Africanism

Historian Seth Markle has written the latest must-have book on Black Power politics. His book is “required reading” because he

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