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Abolitionism and Slave Resistance: An Interview with Manisha Sinha and Sasha Turner

April 20, 2018April 24, 2018 AAIHS Editors Black women, Caribbean, Gender, race, slavery

Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black

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Afro-Brazilians and Contemporary Lynchings in Brazil

April 19, 2018April 24, 2018 Jaimee A. Swift African Diaspora, Afro-Brazilians, Brazil, lynching, Racial Violence, violence, white supremacy

In historical understandings of racial violence against African Americans in the United States, lynching typically summons imagery of white crime

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“Middle Class” is a White Racial Construct

April 16, 2018April 21, 2018 Christopher Petrella and Ameer Hasan Loggins imperialism, racism, white supremacy

Over the past year a flurry of studies and op-eds highlighting diminished opportunities for economic advancement among people of color

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British Culpability in the Trading and Enslavement of Africans

April 12, 2018April 24, 2018 Sasha Turner Blacks in Britain, Caribbean, reparations, slave trade, slavery

“In 1833, Britain used £20 million, 40 per cent of its national budget, to buy freedom for all slaves in

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On Borders and the Matters of Black Life: A Review of “Seven Seconds”

April 11, 2018April 30, 2018 J. T. Roane film, Jim Crow, police brutality, police violence, Visual Culture

*Editor’s Note: This essay contains spoilers* In the recently released Netflix drama, Seven Seconds, viewers are confronted with a dramatization of

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