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Making Race in British Colonial North America

November 8, 2018November 26, 2018 Elise A. Mitchell race

When confronted with three eighteenth-century newspaper advertisements seeking a missing man from Connecticut named Ishmael Mux of “a white Complexion,”

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‘Sexuality and Slavery’: A New Book on Intimate Histories in the Americas

November 5, 2018November 11, 2018 J. T. Roane sexuality, slavery

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

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Race Women Internationalists and Global Black Freedom Struggles

October 30, 2018November 3, 2018 Shelby M. Sinclair Activism, African Diaspora, black feminism, black intellectual history, black internationalism, Black women, Caribbean, decolonization, Gender, race, racism

In her 1932 article entitled “The Awakening of Race Consciousness among Black Students,” Afro-Jamaican intellectual Una Marson advanced a theory

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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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