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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Memory
Hugging History: Sense and Memory in HBO’s Watchmen
*This post is part of our online forum organized by Ahmad Greene-Hayes on HBO’s hit series Watchmen. In episode 2
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Watchmen, Haunting, and the Religious Imagination
*This post is part of our online forum organized by Ahmad Greene-Hayes on HBO’s hit series Watchmen. “There are people
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Eldridge Cleaver and the Afterlives of 1968
*Fifth and final instalment of E. James West’s article series on the 1968 Presidential campaign* In the November 7, 1968
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Contemplating the Black Atlantic
If transatlantic slavery remains one of the foundational premises of a Black or African Diaspora, then the great ocean—the Atlantic—holds
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