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Black Swimmers and Diasporic Understandings of Water

June 4, 2018June 16, 2018 Celeste Henery Black Europe, Blacks in Britain, sports

James “Jim” Clarke was a Guyanese-born celebrated swimmer and diasporic pioneer. I first learned of him through a photo at the International

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Black History, Sequential Art, and the Power of Representation

May 26, 2018June 2, 2018 John Craig #BlackPanther, art, Black Power, comics, Visual Culture

*This post is part of our blog series on The World of the Black Panther. This series, edited by Julian Chambliss and Walter Greason,

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Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History

May 18, 2018May 22, 2018 Sasha Turner Civil War, landownership, slavery

The Weeping Time: Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History opens up with a list of chattel—the names

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Performance Traditions and the “Mardi Gras Indians” in New Orleans

May 5, 2018May 13, 2018 Matthew Teutsch African Diaspora, New Orleans, religion, slave trade

Countless theories surround the history of the “Mardi Gras Indians,” Black organizations in New Orleans that don suits inspired by

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Black Panther: A Call to Ethiopia

May 5, 2018May 13, 2018 Rachel Gillett #BlackPanther, African Diaspora, film, Pan-Africanism, Resistance

*This post is part of our new blog series on The World of the Black Panther. This series, edited by Julian Chambliss and Walter

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