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Thinking About the ‘X’

December 12, 2015December 14, 2015 Jessica Marie Johnson Afrxlatinidad, Caribbean, colonial America, empire, Latin America, slave trade, slavery

As the year winds down, I find myself, like my AAIHS colleague Noelle Trent, reflecting on 2015, on conversations that

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AAIHS OFFICERS

Current Executive Board President: Robert Greene II Robert Greene II is an Assistant Professor of History at Claflin University. He

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Conclusion: Roundtable on The Age of Garvey by Adam Ewing

November 30, 2015December 30, 2016 Guest Poster #AAIHSRoundtable, #AgeofGarvey, Garveyism, Marcus Garvey, Universal Negro Improvement Association

This is the final day of our roundtable on Adam Ewing’s book, The Age of Garvey: How a Jamaican Activist

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Abeng and Black Power in the West Indies

October 27, 2015January 28, 2017 Paul Hébert black intellectual history, C.L.R. James, Caribbean, Walter Rodney

My interest in Black Power and post-war Black radicalism more generally grew not out of an initial interest in African-American

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Between Diasporic Consciousness and Cultural Appropriation

October 3, 2015October 3, 2015 Janell Hobson

Last month, writer Zipporah Gene, of Nigerian descent, set off a firestorm when she accused African Americans of “culturally appropriating”

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