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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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The Windrush Crisis and Britain’s Memory Problem

May 1, 2018May 5, 2018 Adam Thomas Blacks in Britain, Immigration, police brutality, slave trade

Black Britons have occupied a prominent place in national and global politics in recent weeks. The British government has been criticized

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The Capitalist Foundations of Racialization

April 30, 2018May 5, 2018 Charisse Burden-Stelly colonialism, economic justice, slave trade

Racialization—one process of regulating, organizing, and subjecting populations through capital and labor—is integral to and endemic in the capitalist world-system. It

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