Search Results for: abolition

W.E.B. Du Bois, Haiti, and US Imperialism

January 28, 2020January 26, 2020 Crystal Eddins Activism, African Diaspora, black intellectual history, Haiti, Haitian Revolution, imperialism, slavery, Social Movements, W.E.B. Du Bois

This piece follows up on the January 2019 post “Haitian and French Petrol Protests in the Age of Climate Change.”

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1619?

January 14, 2020January 12, 2020 Sasha Turner africa, African Diaspora, archives, Historical Memory, slave trade, slavery

We are living in a “memory boom” he says. From Charleston to New York, the national mall and university halls,

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A Meditation on Natural Light and the Use of Fire in United States Slavery

January 13, 2020January 12, 2020 Tyler Parry black rebellion, environment, Racial Violence, Resistance, slavery, white supremacy

In her September 16, 2019 post for Black Perspectives, “Race and the Paradoxes of the Night,” cultural anthropologist Celeste Henery

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On Lived Experience

December 2, 2019November 30, 2019 Marquis Bey #OnSuite, black intellectual history, Black Queer Identity, Gender, race, trans identity

*This post is part of contributor Marquis Bey’s On Suite series. It took me the longest time to get a

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Online Roundtable—Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination

November 19, 2019November 19, 2019 AAIHS Editors #AAIHSRoundtable, #WorldmakingafterEmpire

November 25-29, 2019 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online roundtable on Adom Getachew’s Worldmaking

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