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Amefricanidade: Surpassing the Puzzle of Race and Nation in Brazil

October 12, 2023October 8, 2023 Bryce Henson #raceandlatinamerica, Afro-Brazilians, Brazil, Indigenous Studies

This post is part of our forum on “Race and Latin America“ Lélia Gonzalez’s theorizations on race, racism, diaspora, and

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Manuel Zapata Olivella, Mestizaje and Black Politics in 1970s Colombia

October 11, 2023October 8, 2023 Laura Correa Ochoa #raceandlatinamerica, African Diaspora, black internationalism, Pan-Africanism

This post is part of our forum on “Race and Latin America” Pan-Africanism is not typically associated with Colombia or

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Mary E. Pleasant: Reshaping the Landscape of Segregation in California

October 4, 2023September 19, 2023 E. Nicole Vines Black women, California, Jim Crow, Mary E. Pleasant, segregation

Between the 1830s and 1890s, the Colored Conventions Movement transformed Black political organizing across the US. Of the thirty states

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Black Women’s Activism through History and Poetry

October 2, 2023September 7, 2023 Cathleen D. Cahill Black women, Carrie Williams Clifford, Club women, freedom, poetry

“Somehow, we’ve weathered and witnessed a nation that isn’t broken, but simply unfinished.” -Amanda Gorman, The Hill We Climb  Those

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Environmental Racism in South Carolina

September 29, 2023September 22, 2023 E. James West DOCUMERICA, environmental justice, photography, race, RaceandDocumerica, racism, Sea Islands

The American metropolis and perceptions of the so-called “urban crisis” have loomed large in previous installments of my Race and

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