Race, Class, and Television: A First Look at Brazil’s Dystopic Drama 3%
3% is Netflix’s latest original series ordered up from Latin America, and the first from Brazil. Set in a dystopic
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An Introduction to the African American Intellectual Heritage Book Series
In today’s post, I sit down with Professors Patrick B. Miller and Paul Spickard to discuss their book series, The African American
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Christmas and Resistance to Slavery in the Americas
It was a humid Christmas day in 1820 when twenty-five-year-old Santiago Martínez presented himself before the army commander stationed in
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Gender, Slavery, and the Archive in Cuba: An Interview with Aisha Finch
This month, I interviewed Aisha Finch about her new book, Rethinking Slave Rebellion in Cuba: La Escalera and the Insurgencies
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On Authoritarianism and Civilization
This piece was originally published on Public Seminar and is reprinted here with permission. In 1890 the young W.E.B. Du
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