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The Black Avenger: ‘The Essential Trope of Atlantic Modernity’

February 6, 2020February 2, 2020 Benjamin Fagan #BlackPanther, African Diaspora, Caribbean, comic books, comics, Haiti, racism, white supremacy

In the years before and since the release and reception of the blockbuster 2018 film, Black Panther, the iconic Marvel

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The Black Republic: A New Book about African Americans and Haiti

January 31, 2020January 30, 2020 AAIHS Editors African Diaspora, black intellectual history, black politics, Black radicalism, Haiti, Pan-Africanism, Resistance, W.E.B. Du Bois

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

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Contemplating the Black Atlantic

January 27, 2020January 26, 2020 Celeste Henery African Diaspora, environment, environmentalism, Historical Memory

If transatlantic slavery remains one of the foundational premises of a Black or African Diaspora, then the great ocean—the Atlantic—holds

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African Americans and Africa: A New Book about Black America’s Relationship with the Continent

January 17, 2020January 16, 2020 AAIHS Editors africa, African Diaspora, black internationalism, Pan-Africanism, race

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

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Dying Laughing: Black Fugitivity and Black Queer Precarity

January 16, 2020January 16, 2020 Keelyn Bradley black politics, Black Queer Identity, Black Queers, Black women, LGBT, race

If, as Ralph Ellison writes, Black laughter is, as an expression of Black humanity, a threat to white social order

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