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Mapping Black Antiquity

November 11, 2021November 11, 2021 Sarah Derbew africa, Antiquity, classics, Egypt, Ethiopia, Greek, Rome

Consider the vagaries surrounding the label “antiquity”: whose antiquity do you imagine to be the norm? Greece? Rome? Africa? For

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Race, Environmental Justice, and DOCUMERICA at 50

November 10, 2021November 9, 2021 E. James West 1970s, Climate Justice, environmental justice, photography, Urban Studies

In April of this year at a press conference staged in front of the National Mall, Democratic Party politicians Ed

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Enslaved Revolutionary Women: An Author Interview with Karen Cook-Bell

November 9, 2021November 8, 2021 Karen Cook Bell Black women, Gender, slavery

On March 5, 1770, a twenty-three-year-old woman, her eight-month-old daughter, and her husband escaped from bondage in Leacock Township in

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Black Networks, Visualization, and Mapping Tools

November 8, 2021November 7, 2021 Maiah Akkerman Letsch #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackAtlantics, Activism, African Diaspora, black internationalism, Gender

*This post is part of our roundtable “Digital Black Atlantics.” The use of software and visualizations has never been so prominent in

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Resistance Discourse of Nineteenth Century Black Intellectuals

November 5, 2021November 4, 2021 Anna Stibbe #BlackAtlantics, abolition, Black Atlantic, Black Digital Humanities, Digital Humanities, slavery

*This post is part of our roundtable “Digital Black Atlantics.” At the “National Negro Convention” in Buffalo of 1843, Black

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