Student Evaluations, Race, Politics, and “American Values”
At the end of every term, with great trepidation, meditative breathing, and perhaps even a homemade cocktail, I look to
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Making Freedom in Colonial Antigua: An Interview with Natasha Lightfoot
This month, I interviewed historian Natasha Lightfoot about her new book, Troubling Freedom: Antigua and the Aftermath of British Emancipation
Read moreThoughts on Underground
Warning this post contains spoilers I first heard about WGN America’s Underground back in October, shortly after I started working
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Eslanda Robeson’s African Journeys
This is a guest post by Dr. Annette Joseph-Gabriel, a scholar of Francophone Caribbean literature and culture. Her areas of
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Haiti, the Archive, and the Historical Imagination
In the fall of 1877, John Mercer Langston laid on his bed on board the British steamer “Andes.” He was
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