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A Sampling of Black Perspectives Posts: July to December 2021

January 27, 2022January 26, 2022 Robert Greene II Black Appalachia, black hair, black internationalism, public memory, United States Colored Troops

Black Perspectives continued its tradition of tying Black intellectual history to a wide range of fields throughout the second half

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A Review of Black Perspectives Roundtables and CFPs in 2021

January 25, 2022January 24, 2022 Robert Greene II #AAIHSRoundtable, archives, black intellectual history, black lives matter, race

In 2021, Black Perspectives commissioned several roundtables and calls for papers. All of them either marked the occasion of an

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From Dessalines to Garvey: the Battles of Psychological Liberation

January 11, 2022January 10, 2022 Kersuze Simeon-Jones African Diaspora, black intellectual history, Haiti

Over two centuries apart, Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Marcus Mosiah Garvey espoused ideas and expounded principles of liberation that descendants of

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BlackPast and the World: Visualizing a Black International Network

November 3, 2021November 4, 2021 Hannah (J.A.H.) de Korte #BlackAtlantics, Black Digital Atlantic, black internationalism, Digital Humanities, Ethiopia, Pan-Africanism

*This post is part of our roundtable “Digital Black Atlantics.” For historian Paul Gilroy, the Black Atlantic represented the notion

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Black Atlantic Journeys in the Digital

November 2, 2021November 4, 2021 Annette Joseph-Gabriel #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackAtlantics, African Diaspora, black intellectual history, black internationalism

*This post is part of our roundtable “Digital Black Atlantics.” “What would it mean to read diaspora spatially? How might

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