From Extractive Agriculture to Industrial Waste Periphery: Life in a Black-Puerto Rican Ecology
*This post is part of our new series on Black Ecologies edited by Justin Hosbey, Leah Kaplan, & J.T. Roane.
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An Appeal –Bring the Maroon to the Foreground in Black Intellectual History
Within the larger narrative of slave resistance, maroons offered a unique experiment. They created and exposed to whites and blacks
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Black Realities and White Statues: The Fall of Confederate Monuments
As a young student, of perhaps fifteen years old, I was the only brown face in a mostly white honors
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The Legacy of the 1968 Rebellion for Today’s Protests in ‘Chocolate City’
In 1968, Washington Post journalists Harry Jaffe and Tom Sherwood named police brutality as one of the factors motivating protestors
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Open Letter to Pitt: Racial Justice and the Shifting Winds of a Nation
Dear members of the Pitt community, As chair of the Department of Africana Studies, I, like many people across the
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