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A Violent and Violating Archive: Black Life and the Slave Trade

March 7, 2017March 11, 2017 Marisa J. Fuentes #SlaveryAtSea, slave trade

This post is part of our online roundtable on Sowande’ Mustakeem’s Slavery at Sea In Slavery at Sea, Sowande’ Mustakeem takes

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Unearthing the Human Stories of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

March 6, 2017March 9, 2017 Doug Egerton #SlaveryAtSea, slave trade

This post is part of our online roundtable on Sowande’ Mustakeem’s Slavery at Sea Buyers like George Washington were invariably

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Malcolm X and Anti-Imperialist Thought

February 24, 2017February 26, 2017 Russell Rickford #RememberingMalcolm, imperialism, Malcolm X, Patrice Lumumba

This post is part of our online forum, “Remembering Malcolm,” edited by Garrett Felber. “No problem can be solved from the same

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How “Black” Is Your Science Fiction?

February 7, 2017February 9, 2017 I. Augustus Durham #comicsandrace, comic books

Depending on the context of its usage, the Spanish term género is definable as “gender” or “genre.” This conflation suggests

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Transcending Time: Centering Literature at Festac 77

January 17, 2017May 30, 2017 Suzanne Enzerink black intellectual history, black internationalism, Pan-Africanism, West Africa

In January 1977, a month-long celebration of African diasporic culture brought participants from fifty-five countries to Lagos, Nigeria, including several

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