“Class Struggle Pan-Africanism”: C.L.R. James in Imperial Britain
In her contribution to the 1992 edited volume C.L.R. James’s Caribbean, the Jamaican literary scholar Sylvia Wynter coined the term
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Caribbean
On Post-War Black British History
It is always fascinating to read historical accounts of the period you have lived through, or think you are familiar
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Suspect Freedoms: A New Book on Afro-Cubans in New York
This post is part of my blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History
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Cuba, Antiracism, and a New Revolution
January 1, 2017 was the first time since 1959 that Cuba has celebrated a New Year and the anniversary of
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Christmas and Resistance to Slavery in the Americas
It was a humid Christmas day in 1820 when twenty-five-year-old Santiago Martínez presented himself before the army commander stationed in
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