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Convict Leasing in the Family

January 17, 2024January 16, 2024 Menika Dirkson carceral state, mass incarceration, racism, South

Around 1920, twenty-four-year-old E. Hooper left her rural hometown of Chester, South Carolina for the big city where she could

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Chick Webb, The King of Swing

November 22, 2023November 7, 2023 Alice Nicholas African Diaspora, Black History, Harlem Renaissance, music

It is important to acknowledge that Black people, wherever they are located in the world, are of African origin because,

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Introduction to the Womanist Theology Forum

November 10, 2023November 9, 2023 Tejai Beulah Howard black intellectual history, Black Women's History, religion, Theology, Womanist Theology

This post is part of our forum on “Womanist Theology.“ When Alice Walker wrote the definition of a Womanist, in 1983,

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An Afro-Caribbean in a Nazi Concentration Camp

October 27, 2023October 22, 2023 Adam Lee Cilli African Diaspora, Black History, oral history

Black Perspectives’ book editor, Adam Lee Cilli interviews Mary Romney-Schaab on her most recent book publication, An Afro-Caribbean in the

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Reckoning with Whiteness in Brazil

October 18, 2023October 16, 2023 Stephanie Reist #AAIHSRoundtable, #raceandlatinamerica, Brazil, Latin America

This post is part of our forum on “Race and Latin America.” In a pivotal scene in Kleber Mendonca Filho’s

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