Search Results for: slavery

The Moral Challenge of the Middle Passage

March 6, 2017March 10, 2017 Jessica Marie Johnson #SlaveryAtSea, slave trade

This is the introduction to our online roundtable on Sowande’ Mustakeem’s Slavery at Sea The field of Middle Passage Studies

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On Teaching Afro-Cubana Feminisms

March 4, 2017March 8, 2017 Devyn Spence Benson Afro-Cubans, black feminism, Black women, Cuba, feminism, Latin America

Black and mulata women have participated in constructing Cubanidad (Cuban nationalism) since the beginning of the Cuban republic in 1902.

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Race and Imperialism in Canada in the 1960s

March 3, 2017March 6, 2017 Paul Hébert Canada, imperialism

In recent years, scholars and activists in Canada have been drawing more attention to the country’s often-unacknowledged history of slavery.

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Towards Usable Histories of the Black Commons

February 28, 2017March 2, 2017 J. T. Roane capitalism, Racial Capitalism

Since the 1980s, policymakers have extended the market logics of risk and profit to encompass all the basic necessities for

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Black Genealogies of Power: Seven Maxims for Resistance in the Trump Years

February 27, 2017March 1, 2017 Dan Berger black radical tradition, Politics, Resistance, Trumpism

“Power concedes nothing without demand,” argued Frederick Douglass in one of his most cited speeches. “It never did and it

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