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Global Blackness: More than Strangers, More than Citizens

September 14, 2023September 7, 2023 April J. Mayes #TranslatingBlackness, Haiti, Immigration, Racial Capitalism

This post is part of our online roundtable on Lorgia García Peña’s Translating Blackness. There she stood, in the middle of a dirt

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Deprovincializing Black Studies and Translating Blackness Beyond Borders

September 11, 2023September 7, 2023 Robin D. G. Kelley #Roundtable, #TranslatingBlackness, Arturo Schomburg, Black Studies, book review, Frederick Douglass, History, Transnationalism

This post is part of our online roundtable on Lorgia García Peña’s Translating Blackness. Lorgia García Peña’s Translating Blackness is a

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Black Soldiers and their Families’ Activism during the Antebellum Era

April 24, 2023April 24, 2023 Holly A. Pinheiro, Jr. #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackMilitaryFamilies, Activism, slavery

This post is part of our online forum on Black Military Families in the Nineteenth Century. For many people today,

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Writing Black Activist Lives: An CBFS Interview

March 28, 2023March 26, 2023 Lucien Baskin Black Power, black protest, Black women

Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black

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Black Religious Fostering of American Civic Ideals

January 20, 2023January 16, 2023 R. Drew Smith #BlackIntellectualDemocracy, Black Christianity, democracy, Faith, Marian Wright Edelman, Martin Luther King Jr.

This post is part of our forum on Black Intellectuals and the Crisis of Democracy. Black Christians have been key agents

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