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Haitian and Dominican Freedom Struggles in the Nineteenth Century

July 2, 2018July 5, 2018 Sandy Placido Anticolonialism, Cuba, Haiti, Haitian Revolution, Puerto Rico

In We Dream Together: Dominican Independence, Haiti, and the Fight for Caribbean Freedom, historian Anne Eller cogently interprets the geopolitical shifts that

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Religion in the Work of Langston Hughes

June 12, 2018June 16, 2018 N’Kosi Oates Harlem, poetry, religion

It was 1914 when twelve-year-old Langston Hughes went to a Black Church for the first time. It marked him for

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#SummerReading: Recommended New Books on the Black Experience

June 11, 2018June 16, 2018 Ibram X. Kendi black intellectual history

With summer quickly approaching, I have compiled a list of recommended new non-fiction books. All of these books, which were

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W.E.B. Du Bois, Gender, and Black History

June 5, 2018June 16, 2018 Lavelle Porter black intellectual history, literature, Resistance, W.E.B. Du Bois, white supremacy

In Axel’s Castle, critic Edmund Wilson wrote of Gertrude Stein’s enigmatic novel of nearly a thousand pages, The Making of Americans,

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The Legacy and Representation of Blacks in Spain

June 1, 2018October 15, 2018 Nicholas R. Jones Black Europe, Black Europe Series, blackness, Historical Memory, Historiography

*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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