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Fighting for Freedom: Free Women of African Descent in New Orleans and Beyond

April 12, 2015April 12, 2015 Jessica Marie Johnson black protest, black rebellion, Civil War, freedom, reconstruction, slavery

Delivered at the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival on Saturday, March 28, 2015 in New Orleans, Louisiana at the panel

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A Bibliography of Black Internationalism

April 6, 2015March 28, 2016 Keisha N. Blain

Over the past several years, I have been conducting research for a book on black nationalism, radical politics, and internationalism during

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Slave Trading and the “When” of Gender

March 15, 2015March 16, 2015 Greg Childs

In 1798, in the captaincy of Pernambuco in the northeast region of the Portuguese colony of Brazil, a young woman

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Why the Women of Hip-Hop Are Crying: Black Women’s Hip-Hop Histories

February 3, 2015February 3, 2015 Janell Hobson

There is something deeply touching and yet somewhat enraging when reading Missy Elliott’s post-Super Bowl halftime performance tweet: So many

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Between Latin America and the African Diaspora?

January 17, 2015January 18, 2015 Greg Childs

“Well obviously we need another Latin Americanist, because when ‘X’ leaves, we won’t have anybody who does Latin America anymore.”

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