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How Hollywood Has Ignored the Haitian Revolution

July 16, 2021July 15, 2021 Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall Black film, film, Haiti, Haitian Revolution

African Americans have long been interested in Haiti.1 Decades before the so-called “Haitian turn” of the twenty-first century in US

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Black Health Care, Black Art: A Texas Perspective

July 8, 2021July 8, 2021 Celeste Henery education, racism, teaching, white supremacy

Galveston, Texas, may best be remembered as the provenance of Juneteenth. However, in the universe of Black history, the island

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“Pauulu’s Diaspora”: An Author’s Response

July 2, 2021June 26, 2021 Quito J. Swan #QuitoSwan, black internationalism

*This post is part of our roundtable on Dr. Quito Swan’s ‘Pauulu’s Diaspora.’ Dr. Swan will be in conversation with Dr. Keisha

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The Borders of Black Power

June 28, 2021June 28, 2021 Adam Ewing #QuitoSwan, Black political thought, Black Power, environmental justice

*This post is part of our roundtable on Quito Swan’s ‘Pauulu’s Diaspora.’ Dr. Swan will be in conversation with Dr.

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Consumerism and Curation: Sarah Tate’s Resistance

June 25, 2021June 25, 2021 Katie Knowles Activism, black intellectual history, black protest, Black women, capitalism, Gender

On June 19, 1865, Sarah Tate was living about 160 miles west of Galveston, Texas, on the homestead of James

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