Insanity, the Historian, and the Slave Catcher: “Capturing” Black Voices
First an episode from nineteenth-century Brazil: in 1895 Raimundo Nina Rodrigues, a forensic psychiatrist at the University of Bahia in
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The “Black Republic:” The Meaning of Haitian Independence before the Occupation
This is the second entry in a series on the centennial of the U.S. occupation of Haiti. The introduction to
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Dispatches from Shondalandia by a Slavery Historian (Vol. 2)
“I am not yours.” – Kerry Washington as Olivia Pope, Scandal 2 X 3 “You might be Command, Dad, but
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