Search Results for: Civil War

Haitian and Dominican Freedom Struggles in the Nineteenth Century

July 2, 2018July 5, 2018 Sandy Placido Anticolonialism, Cuba, Haiti, Haitian Revolution, Puerto Rico

In We Dream Together: Dominican Independence, Haiti, and the Fight for Caribbean Freedom, historian Anne Eller cogently interprets the geopolitical shifts that

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#SummerReading: Recommended New Books on the Black Experience

June 11, 2018June 16, 2018 Ibram X. Kendi black intellectual history

With summer quickly approaching, I have compiled a list of recommended new non-fiction books. All of these books, which were

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Black Subjectivity and the Origins of American Gynecology

May 31, 2018October 24, 2018 Rachel Zellars Black women, Gender, medicine, Racial Violence, slavery

In her new award-winning book, Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology, historian Deirdre Cooper Owens describes

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Solidarity and Excellence: W.E.B. Du Bois and William Leo Hansberry

May 19, 2018May 22, 2018 Christopher Tinson African Diaspora, black intellectual history, race, teaching, W.E.B. Du Bois

In W. E. B. Du Bois’s The World and Africa, first published in 1946, he writes: “I have read Eduard

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Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History

May 18, 2018May 22, 2018 Sasha Turner Civil War, landownership, slavery

The Weeping Time: Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History opens up with a list of chattel—the names

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