This Vast Southern Empire: A New Book on Slaveholders and U.S. Foreign Policy
This post is part of a new and recurring blog series I am editing, which announces the release of selected new
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Men without Pants: Masculinity and the Enslaved
Although nearly fifty-seven years have passed since Stanley Elkins’ provocative thesis on the effects of slavery rocked the historical community,
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Beyond Today’s Vote: Constructions of Black Identity Then and Now
“The political and cultural identities of black people have never been reducible to a discrete and unified list of interests
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“All of Us Had a Taste”: Outlaw Women and Stephanie St. Clair, Madame Queen of Policy
Today is the third day of our roundtable on LaShawn Harris’s new book, Sex Workers, Psychics, and Numbers Runners: Black
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What is Afro-Latin America?
From Mexico to Brazil and beyond, Africans and people of African descent have fought in wars of independence, forged mixed
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