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Online Roundtable–The Black Radical Thought of Beatriz Nascimento

August 5, 2024August 7, 2024 AAIHS Editors #Roundtable, #TheDialecticIsInTheSea, Afro-Brazilians, Beatriz Nascimento, blackness, Brazil

August 26th to September 3rd, 2024 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is

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The Black Poet’s Journey Through the Iron Curtain

February 6, 2024February 6, 2024 Caio Fernandes Barbosa art, Black Arts, Brazil, poetry, Soviet Union

In late July 1955, after sailing to France and then taking a train to Poland, the Brazilian Black poet Solano

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Uma História Ambiental Negra das Palmeiras

November 7, 2023November 7, 2023 Jayson Maurice Porter translated by Manoel Rendeiro Neto #BlackFamilyTree, Brazil, Columbia, Environmental History, Latin America

Leia a tradução em inglês deste ensaio aqui. [Uma breve leitura da palma da mão com Landscapes of Freedom por

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A Black Environmental History of Palms

November 7, 2023November 9, 2023 Jayson Maurice Porter #BlackFamilyTree, Brazil, Columbia, Environmental History, Latin America

Read this essay’s Portuguese translation here. [A brief palm reading of Landscapes of Freedom by Claudia Leal (2018), Raspando Coco

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1978 GRANES Quilombo parade

Rio’s Carnival Quilombo

October 19, 2023October 16, 2023 João Gabriel Rabello Sodré and Vítor Antunes Afro-Brazilians, Afro-Latinx, Brazil, Carnival

This post is part of our forum on “Race and Latin America.” Brazil’s Carnival is widely imagined as a locus

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