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Translating Blackness and Transcending Hierarchies of Belonging

September 13, 2023September 7, 2023 Crystal M. Fleming #TranslatingBlackness, African Diaspora, black internationalism, Frederick Douglass

This post is part of our online roundtable on Lorgia García Peña’s Translating Blackness. In the penultimate chapter of Translating Blackness:

A Center of Afro-Diasporic Possibility

June 1, 2023May 30, 2023 Maya Doig-Acuña #AAIHSRoundtable, #PanamaInBlack, African Diaspora, black internationalism, Panama

This post is part of our online roundtable on Kaysha Corinealdi’s Panama in Black. Every October since 1995, Panamanians in Brooklyn

Online Roundtable–Kaysha Corinealdi’s ‘Panama in Black’

May 26, 2023August 20, 2023 AAIHS Editors #PanamaInBlack, African Diaspora, Afro-Caribbean, Caribbean, Online Forum

May 29–June 2, 2023 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting a roundtable on Kaysha

Black Internationalism and Haiti: An Interview with Leslie M. Alexander

March 9, 2023March 9, 2023 Lauren T. Rorie Author Interview, Black Internationalist, Haiti, Internationalism, Pan-Africanism

In today’s post, Lauren T. Rorie interviews Dr. Leslie M. Alexander, author of Fear of a Black Republic: Haiti and the Birth

Kinship and Intimacy in Black Women’s Atlantic World

January 26, 2023January 23, 2023 Chinaza Ruth Okonkwo africa, book review, Kinship, slavery, Wicked Flesh, Women

Even as more scholars of color engage with the livelihoods of those not rich, white, or male, the way Black