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Making Jokes and History in An Octoroon

Last weekend I saw a performance of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins‘ play An Octoroon, which is a reimagining of Dion Boucicault’s The

For a generation of open-minded Americans, the original Roots miniseries in 1977 uprooted fields of racist ideas of backward Africa,

If you’ve never seen a historian cry, you’re probably hanging out with the wrong historians. The day you see multiple

What would a memorial to slavery look like? What story would it tell? What function would we want it to

Over the past few months, I have been writing posts exploring pre-modern black intellectual history. They have largely focused on