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Clotil Walcott and Black Power in Trinidad and Tobago

September 19, 2024September 19, 2024 Max Lewontin #BlackWomensActivismInTheDiaspora, Black women, Caribbean, Civil Rights Movement

This post is part of our forum on “Black Women’s Activism in the African Diaspora.”  In June 1984 Trinidadian labor

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Examining Identity in Louisiana’s 19th-Century Black Literature

September 12, 2024September 12, 2024 Tanguy GIL France, literature, Louisiana

Slave narratives were a central genre of African American literature in antebellum America. Still, some authors wrote fiction works, the

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Haiti and the Birth of Black Internationalism in the United States

September 10, 2024September 4, 2024 Michael Lawrence Dickinson Haiti, Haitian Revolution

“What happened in Haiti between 1791 and 1804 contradicted much of what happened elsewhere in the world before and since..But

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Black Women’s Fiction and Medical Experimentation

September 9, 2024September 9, 2024 Norrell Edwards medical experimentation, race

The Covid-19 pandemic laid bare existing racial inequalities in our healthcare system. The magnified death toll for Black and Brown

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Accepting Submissions for the 2025 Maria Stewart Prize

September 6, 2024September 6, 2024 AAIHS Editors

The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) is now accepting submissions for the 2025 Maria Stewart Prize for the best

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