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On the Blackness of Flamenco

March 26, 2019August 12, 2022 Nicholas R. Jones African Diaspora, Black Europe, culture, dance

Bubbling with duende—the flamenco lexicon for expressing a performer’s enchanting spirit, graceful power, and soulful it-factor—K. Meira Goldberg’s Sonidos Negros: On

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Black Women’s Resistance to Sexual Violence

March 22, 2019August 12, 2022 Cécile Yézou archives, black feminism, Black women, Gender, race, Racial Violence, Resistance

Mary told her family story to Charles Houston as part of the “Behind the Veil” oral history project undertaken by Duke University’s

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Black Radicalism and Shirley Graham Du Bois’s Curatorial Imagination

March 15, 2019August 12, 2022 Phillip Luke Sinitiere #ShirleyGrahamDuBois, Activism, black intellectual history, black internationalism, Black radicalism, Black women

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Shirley Graham Du Bois to recognize the anniversary of her passing in March 1977. The

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#AAIHS2019 Conference: Black Internationalism—Then and Now

March 9, 2019August 12, 2022 Annette Joseph-Gabriel #AAIHS2019

In a few short weeks, AAIHS will hold its fourth annual conference at the University of Michigan. The two-day event,

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Look at Me: A New Book About Education and the Black Queer Body

March 7, 2019March 9, 2019 J. T. Roane education, embodiment, LGBT, sexuality

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

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