Reclaiming the Tricontinental: Transnational Solidarity and Contemporary Struggles
In a speech at the Hudson Institute on October 4, 2018, Vice President Mike Pence all but declared a new
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Making Race in British Colonial North America
When confronted with three eighteenth-century newspaper advertisements seeking a missing man from Connecticut named Ishmael Mux of “a white Complexion,”
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Aretha Franklin, Sexual Violence, and the “Culture of Dissemblance”
Many have proposed that Black American cultural expressions created in the New World — jazz, the blues, gospel, R&B, the
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Slavery, Land Ownership, and Black Women’s Community Networks
Delia Garlic, a former slave in Virginia, Georgia, and Louisiana knew the worst of slavery, including violent punishment and forced
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The Black Convention Movement and Black Politics in Nineteenth-Century America
African American leaders throughout the nineteenth century recognized the significance of creating and sustaining national organizations that were built upon
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