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Race and Radicalism in Puerto Rico: An Interview with Carlos Alamo-Pastrana

August 2, 2016August 2, 2016 Devyn Spence Benson Black radicalism, empire, Puerto Rican history, Puerto Rico

This month I interviewed Dr. Carlos Alamo-Pastrana about his new book, Seams of Empire: Race and Radicalism in Puerto Rico

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La Esclava Blanca: The New Telenovela Rewriting Colombia’s History of Slavery

July 6, 2016July 1, 2016 Guest Poster Colombia, Latin America

This is a guest post by Yesenia Barragan, a historian of race, slavery, and emancipation in Colombia, Afro-Latin America, and

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On Faithful Witnessing

July 2, 2016July 2, 2016 Guest Poster Afrxlatinidad, black intellectual history, black internationalism, black politics, Black women

Today we’re featuring a guest post by Yomaira Figueroa, assistant professor of Afro Diaspora Studies in the Department of English

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Fire in Babylon and The Racial Politics of West Indian Cricket

May 27, 2016May 27, 2016 Paul Hébert black internationalism, C.L.R. James, Caribbean

“What do they know of cricket who only cricket know?” asked C.L.R. James in Beyond a Boundary, his 1962 study

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Black Internationalism, Booker T. Washington, and the German Empire in Africa

March 30, 2016March 30, 2016 Guest Poster

This is a guest post by Marius Kothor, a PhD student in the Department of History at the University of

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