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Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century France

January 22, 2021January 20, 2021 Erica Johnson Edwards African Diaspora, Black women, Gender, race

Robin Mitchell’s preface to Vénus Noire: Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century France is extremely moving. She begins with

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Mass Incarceration and the Metaphor of Slavery

January 12, 2021January 12, 2021 Shannon King #WeAreNotSlaves, carceral state, mass incarceration, prisons, slavery

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Robert T. Chase’s We Are Not Slaves. In We Are Not

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Prison Policy from the Bottom Up

January 11, 2021January 10, 2021 Amanda Hughett #WeAreNotSlaves, carceral state, law, mass incarceration, Prison Abolition, prisons

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Robert T. Chase’s We Are Not Slaves. We Are Not Slaves:

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The Black Republic: An Author’s Response

December 11, 2020December 10, 2020 Brandon Byrd #TheBlackRepublic, black intellectual history, black internationalism, Haiti

The most familiar story about nineteenth-century African Americans and the Haitian Revolution is a romanticized account of how the revolution

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African Americans, Black Internationalism, and the Fate of Haiti

December 10, 2020January 11, 2021 Christina Davidson #TheBlackRepublic, African Diaspora, black internationalism, black radical tradition, Caribbean, Haiti, Resistance

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Brandon R. Byrd’s The Black Republic. From the outside looking in, there

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