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The Anti-Black City: A New Book on Black Urban Life in Brazil

February 12, 2018February 16, 2018 Keisha N. Blain Afro-Brazilians, Brazil, carceral state, police brutality, police violence, policing

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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Reaping the Revolution: Urban Agriculture in Havana, Cuba

January 4, 2018January 8, 2018 J. T. Roane Activism, Afro-Cubans, Caribbean, Cuba, environment, food, Latin America, religion

During my recent visit to Cuba, I took a coco, one of Havana’s zipping yellow motorcycle taxis, from my accommodations

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Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom

December 8, 2017December 11, 2017 Keisha N. Blain black feminism, black nationalism, Black women, Pan-Africanism

This is an excerpt from Keisha N. Blain’s Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle

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The Cuban Revolution and the Myth of Racial Inclusivity

November 10, 2017November 13, 2017 Nancy Mirabal #AAIHSRoundtable, #AntiracismInCuba, Activism, Caribbean

This post is part of our online roundtable on Devyn Spence Benson’s Antiracism in Cuba. Devyn Spence Benson’s Antiracism in Cuba: The Unfinished

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Centering the Voices of Black Activists in Post-Revolutionary Cuba

November 9, 2017November 13, 2017 Melina Pappademos #AAIHSRoundtable, #AntiracismInCuba, Afro-Cubans, Cuba

This post is part of our online roundtable on Devyn Spence Benson’s Antiracism in Cuba. There are few in the United States who

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