Between Latin America and the African Diaspora?
“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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“Dr. Martin Luther King’s Mother is Slain” and Lessons from Gendered History
On June 30th, 1974 an armed gunman strode into the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia. The church, located in
Read moreReflecting on the U.S. Occupation of Haiti, One Hundred Years Later
This year marks the anniversary of two cataclysmic events in Haitian history: the U.S. occupation of Haiti in 1915 and
Read more“…they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect…”
“They had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to
Read moreBrandon R. Byrd
Brandon R. Byrd is an Assistant Professor of History at Vanderbilt University and an intellectual historian of the 19th and 20th
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