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Black Roots Tourism in Brazil

November 5, 2019October 26, 2019 Erica Williams African Diaspora, Afro-Brazilians, Brazil, Latin America, race, tourism, travel

Patricia de Santana Pinho’s Mapping Diaspora: African American Roots Tourism in Brazil is a compelling ethnography that explores the journeys

We are our own Multitude: Los Angeles’ Black Panamanian Community

November 4, 2019November 2, 2019 Jenise Miller #BlackCalifornia, African Diaspora, Afro-Latinx, California, Caribbean, culture, Los Angeles, Panama

*This essay is republished in partnership with Boom California as part of an ongoing series on Black California. On a Saturday

Online Forum: Researching, Teaching, and Embodying the Black Diaspora

November 4, 2019November 4, 2019 AAIHS Editors #WorkingtheBlackDiaspora, African Diaspora, education, pedagogy, teaching

November 11–15, 2019 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum on researching, teaching,

The Black Freedom Movement on Campus

November 1, 2019October 30, 2019 AAIHS Editors Activism, black lives matter, Black Power, black protest, organizing, Resistance, student activism

Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Curated

The Last Lynching Victim in South Carolina

October 31, 2019October 25, 2019 Brent M. S. Campney book review, Historical Memory, Jim Crow, lynching, Racial Violence, racism, South

In They Stole Him Out of Jail: Willie Earle, South Carolina’s Last Lynching Victim, William B. Gravely, professor emeritus at