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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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The Life and Activism of Rosa Parks: A CBFS Interview

October 5, 2023September 22, 2023 Lucien Baskin Black Women's History, CBFS, Civil Rights Movement, interview, Rosa Parks

Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black

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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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Arturo Schomburg, Black Studies, and Social Change

September 28, 2023September 15, 2023 DJ Polite Arturo Schomburg, Black History, Black Studies, John Henrik Clarke

Around 1930, a fifteen-year-old John Henrik Clarke travelled to New York City, New York, anxious to meet Arturo Schomburg at

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