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“They’re Chatterboxes with their Feet”: Black Dances in Early Modern Spain

November 12, 2018November 19, 2018 Nicholas R. Jones African Diaspora, black internationalism, Caribbean, Cuba, music, Resistance

In his Premática del Tiempo (1628; 1648), Francisco de Quevedo berates Black African slave culture flourishing on Spanish soil. What

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Reclaiming the Tricontinental: Transnational Solidarity and Contemporary Struggles

November 9, 2018November 26, 2018 Charisse Burden-Stelly black radical tradition, Black radicalism, Cuba

In a speech at the Hudson Institute on October 4, 2018, Vice President Mike Pence all but declared a new

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German Appropriation of Black Popular Culture

November 2, 2018November 3, 2018 Jamele Watkins African Diaspora, Black Europe, Germany, masculinity

Black German Studies has focused on women’s writing over the past thirty years. Priscilla Layne’s White Rebels in Black is

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A Black Womanist Requiem for Katie G. Cannon

October 31, 2018November 3, 2018 Eboni Marshall Turman Black women, black women scholars, race, religion

Katie G. Cannon’s untimely death, has compelled me to begin this reflection at the funeral. Not hers; but my first funeral

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A Tool for Our Times: Legacies of Black Radicalism and Communism

October 19, 2018November 3, 2018 John Munro black radical tradition, Black radicalism

Speaking recently about “Mapping Communist Internationalism and Class Struggle Then and Now” at the social movement incubator that is The

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