Introduction to “Digital Black Atlantics” Roundtable
*This post is part of our roundtable “Digital Black Atlantics.” In recent years the rise of digital humanities has become
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Geography
Benne del Sur: Sesame and Black Agricultural History in Mexico
Few objects embody and communicate histories of land and labor like food. Netflix’s High on the Hog: How African American
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On Public Art, Historical Memory, and Racial Violence
In 1919, two dozen race riots broke out across the United States, and the collective racial terror traumatized Black communities.
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British Racial Violence and Transatlantic Black Activism
February of this year marked the thirtieth anniversary of the killing of Rolan Adams, a Black British teenager who was
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Louise Thompson and the Black and White Film
In 1932, James Ford returned from the Soviet Union with a letter from the Russian film company Meschrabpom saying it
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