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Arturo Schomburg, Black Studies, and Social Change

September 28, 2023September 15, 2023 DJ Polite Arturo Schomburg, Black History, Black Studies, John Henrik Clarke

Around 1930, a fifteen-year-old John Henrik Clarke travelled to New York City, New York, anxious to meet Arturo Schomburg at

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Why Black Studies?

September 26, 2023September 14, 2023 M. Keith Claybrook, Jr. Black Campus Movement, Black History, Black Studies, ethnic studies

Black Studies, (also known as African American Studies, Africana Studies, and Pan African Studies) has its origins in the Black Campus

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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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Black Women, Violence, and the Territory of Global Antiblackness

September 12, 2023September 7, 2023 Shana L. Redmond #TranslatingBlackness, violence

This post is part of our online roundtable on Lorgia García Peña’s Translating Blackness. The violence is irrepressible. The names of those taken

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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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