Candomblé, Afro-Brazilian Women, and African Religiosity in Brazil
While prejudicial, racial, and discriminatory ideologies of religious exceptionalism in regards to African spirituality persist even today (as many still
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Latin America
Fears of Black Political Activism in Cuba and Beyond, 1912–2017
Images of police officers violently targeting black protestors in Buenaventura, Colombia, restraining Black Lives Matter activists in Charlotte, NC, or
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Gerald Horne’s Insurgent African Diaspora
This post is part of our online roundtable on Gerald Horne’s Black Radical History In 2011, Gerald Horne, reflecting on
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A Civil Rights Protest Is Happening Right Now in Colombia
As of May 10, thousands in the majority-Black department of Chocó in the northwestern corridor of the Colombian Pacific are
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Theorizing Race in the Americas: An Interview with Juliet Hooker
In today’s post, Francisco Herrera, an MA student in Latin American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, interviews
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