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Sexuality, History, and Britain’s Colonial Legacy

October 23, 2018November 5, 2018 Sasha Turner colonialism, Jamaica, Marriage, religion, white supremacy

A recent editorial letter in the Jamaica Gleaner condemning the newspaper’s feature of popular dance-hall artist, Beenie Man, his so-called Babymama,

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Beyond the Black Paradigm? Queer Afro-diasporic Strategies

October 22, 2018November 3, 2018 Fatima El-Tayeb African Diaspora, Black Europe, Black Europe Series, Black German, Black Queers, blackness, Racial Capitalism

*This post is part of our new blog series on Black Europe. This series, edited by Kira Thurman and Anne-Marie Angelo, explores what it means to

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Dignity, Work, and Race Capitalism

October 15, 2018October 17, 2018 James Padilioni Jr capitalism, race

Recently, a photo of The Cosby Show alum Geoffrey Owens surfaced that showed the actor working as a cashier at

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The Complex Life of Writer Chester B. Himes

October 15, 2018October 17, 2018 Lavelle Porter archives, black intellectual history, Harlem Renaissance, literature, sexuality

The prologue to Lawrence P. Jackson’s biography of Chester Himes begins with the twenty-five-year-old Himes sitting at a typewriter in

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State Surveillance of the Black Freedom Movement in Memphis

October 12, 2018October 17, 2018 Anthony C. Siracusa #BlackLivesMatter, Activism, Black Power, black protest, Civil Rights Movement, police brutality, police violence, Unseen Light

*This post is part of our online forum on Aram Goudsouzian and Charles McKinney’s An Unseen Light On March 28, 1968, five thousand Memphians gathered

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