Search Results for: Civil War

“Yet Lives and Fights”: Riots, Resistance, and Reconstruction

November 12, 2016November 12, 2016 Jessica Marie Johnson Fifteenth Amendment, reconstruction, W.E.B. Du Bois

How civil war in the South began again—indeed had never ceased; and how black Prometheus bound to the Rock of

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Conjuring the Black Radical Tradition

November 11, 2016December 30, 2016 Austin McCoy #BlackMarxism, Angela Davis, Black Marxism, black radical tradition

This is the fifth day of our roundtable on Cedric Robinson’s book, Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical

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Thinking with Black Marxism

November 9, 2016December 30, 2016 Jennifer L. Morgan #BlackMarxism, Black Marxism, black radical tradition, Cedric Robinson, Racial Capitalism

This is the third day of our roundtable on Cedric Robinson’s book, Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical

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Revolving Doors of Fugitivity: Marronage and the Military

October 15, 2016October 14, 2016 Greg Childs black soldiers, Brazil, marronage

In October 1776, the governor of the Brazilian city Salvador da Bahia sent out letters encouraging municipal councils, landowners, captains

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Haiti and the Atlantic World: An Interview with Julia Gaffield

October 10, 2016October 9, 2016 Reena Goldthree Anticolonialism, France, Haiti, Haitian Revolution

This month, I interviewed Julia Gaffield about her new book, Haitian Connections in the Atlantic World: Recognition after Revolution (University

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