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Black Beauty Queens and Global Representational Politics

This article first appeared in Made By History. The original can be accessed here. In January, Cheslie Kryst, who was known as

Over two centuries apart, Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Marcus Mosiah Garvey espoused ideas and expounded principles of liberation that descendants of

In an 1851 report to the Louisiana Medical Association, New Orleans physician Samuel Cartwright coined the term “drapetomania”—the disease that

The recent assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Möise and the power vacuum he left have deep roots in United States

African Americans have long been interested in Haiti.1 Decades before the so-called “Haitian turn” of the twenty-first century in US