Runaway Genres and the Global Legacy of Slavery
In her sweeping monograph Runaway Genres: The Global Afterlives of Slavery, Yogita Goyal takes up the legacy of the American
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Meaning of freedom
On America
*This post is part of contributor Marquis Bey’s On Suite series. “I love America more than any other country in this world,
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Blackness, Freedom, and the Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana
Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana radically reorients our perspective on Blackness and slavery
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There Is No ‘Relatively Benign’ Version of Settler-Colonialism
I might be made to agree with Erna Paris that using the term “genocide” in reference to Canada’s treatment of indigenous populations
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Black Patriotism and Black Death in the Aftermath of the American Revolution
On June 15, 1776, Lucretia Pritchett petitioned the Virginia Convention seeking reparations for the deceased enslaved man over whom she
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