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Black Madness: A New Book About Blackness and Disability

May 10, 2019April 29, 2019 J. T. Roane blackness, disability, embodiment, 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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Deferred Freedom Dreams in the Quest for Black Economic Citizenship

May 8, 2019May 8, 2019 Westenley Alcenat Constitution, economic justice, law, Racial Capitalism, slavery

A little more than 153 years ago, in the aftermath of the Civil War, Radical Republicans in the United States

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Frederick Douglass and a Diplomacy of Blackness

April 23, 2019April 22, 2019 Ronald Angelo Johnson #DouglassForward, Diplomacy, Frederick Douglass, Haiti

*This post is part of the online forum on The Futures of Frederick Douglass. The contributions in this forum each

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Black Women’s Anti-War and Anti-Colonial Activism

April 18, 2019August 12, 2022 AAIHS Editors antiwar activism, Black Power, Black women, black women's internationalism

Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Curated

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The Race of Disaster: Black Communities and the Crisis in Puerto Rico

April 17, 2019August 12, 2022 Hilda Lloréns African Diaspora, capitalism, Puerto Rico, Race and Economic History, Racial Capitalism

In this post, looking at the lives of Afro-Puerto Rican coastal foragers, I problematize the “disaster capitalism” orthodoxy, to probe

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