Haitian Writer Baron de Vastey and Black Atlantic Humanism: An Interview with Marlene L. Daut
In today’s post, Julia Gaffield, Assistant Professor of History at Georgia State University, interviews Marlene L. Daut on her new book Baron
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Memory
Black Swimmers and Diasporic Understandings of Water
James “Jim” Clarke was a Guyanese-born celebrated swimmer and diasporic pioneer. I first learned of him through a photo at the International
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The Legacy and Representation of Blacks in Spain
*This post is part of our new blog series on Black Europe. This series, edited by Kira Thurman and Anne-Marie Angelo, explores what it
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Black Subjectivity and the Origins of American Gynecology
In her new award-winning book, Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology, historian Deirdre Cooper Owens describes
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Crispus Attucks, American Revolutionary Hero: An Interview with Mitch Kachun
In today’s post, historian Stephen G. Hall, Fellow at the National Humanities Center, interviews Mitch Kachun on his new book First Martyr of
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