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Katie Geneva Cannon and Christian Womanist Religious Scholarship

October 24, 2018November 3, 2018 Oluwatomisin Oredein Black women, Gender, religion, Resistance

Possibilities are our creation – this is the stunning admission. Ulterior to the norm, the possible exists: a frank gesture

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Beyond the Black Paradigm? Queer Afro-diasporic Strategies

October 22, 2018November 3, 2018 Fatima El-Tayeb African Diaspora, Black Europe, Black Europe Series, Black German, Black Queers, blackness, Racial Capitalism

*This post is part of our new blog series on Black Europe. This series, edited by Kira Thurman and Anne-Marie Angelo, explores what it means to

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Slavery and a Transnational History of Reparations

October 16, 2018October 17, 2018 Guy Emerson Mount Activism, African Diaspora, black intellectual history, reparations, slave trade, slavery

Reparations for slavery are arguably the biggest global question facing the African Diaspora in the twenty-first-century. In her new book,

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“Chocolate City, Chessboard City”: Black Vitality in Renaissance Seville

October 16, 2018October 17, 2018 Nicholas R. Jones African Diaspora, Black Europe, blackness, race

Seville, Spain at the height of the Renaissance bustled like a chocolate city–to borrow from Marcus Anthony Hunter and Zandria F. Robinson‘s masterful

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‘Race Women Internationalists’: A New Book on Global Freedom Struggles

October 12, 2018October 17, 2018 Melissa N. Shaw Activism, African Diaspora, black internationalism, black protest, Black women, colonialism, fascism, Resistance

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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