historiography

La Afrovenezolanidad: A Historiography of the Black Experience in Venezuela

March 30, 2022March 29, 2022 Menika Dirkson Afro-Venezuelan, Historiography, slavery, South America, Venezuela

During the month of May, Venezuelans celebrate Afro-Descendant Month in honor of the social, political, economic, and cultural contributions Afro-Venezuelans

Black Women, West Indian Networks, and US immigration

January 10, 2022January 9, 2022 Menika Dirkson black intellectual history, Black women, literature

“I was numb, but it was from not knowing just what this new life would hold for me.” —Jamaica Kincaid, Lucy

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

Expanding the Digital Black Atlantic

November 4, 2021November 4, 2021 Roopika Risam #BlackAtlantics, African Diaspora, Black Atlantic, Black Digital Humanities, Digital Humanities, W.E.B. Du Bois

*This post is part of our roundtable “Digital Black Atlantics.” The essays published in the Digital Black Atlantics forum this

Lawrence Reddick and the Communal Acts of Black History

October 7, 2021October 6, 2021 Stephen G. Hall academia, black intellectual history, Black Power, Black Reconstruction, Higher education

African American history has always been a communal act. From its inception in the nineteenth century, Black men and women,