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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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“My Brother in All the Ways That Count”: Remembering Jeffrey B. Ferguson

June 29, 2018July 1, 2018 Uday Singh Mehta #JeffreyFerguson

This post is part of a week-long forum, organized by Mary Hicks, honoring Professor Jeffrey Brown Ferguson who passed away on March

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“The Right to Laugh”: Remembering Jeffrey B. Ferguson

June 25, 2018July 1, 2018 David Blight #JeffreyFerguson, Harlem Renaissance, literature

This post is part of a week-long forum, organized by Mary Hicks, honoring Professor Jeffrey Brown Ferguson who passed away on

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The Black Studies Movement in Britain

June 22, 2018July 2, 2018 Kehinde Andrews Black Europe, Black Europe Series, Blacks in Britain, education, education reform, Malcolm X

*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 means

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The Great Migration and Black Environmental History: An Interview with Brian McCammack

June 21, 2018July 1, 2018 J. T. Roane Chicago, environment, Great Migration

In today’s post, J.T. Roane, Associate Editor at Black Perspectives and an Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the

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