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CFP: Ideas of Race in Latin America

March 3, 2023March 1, 2023 AAIHS Editors Activism, African Diaspora, CFP, Latin America, race

Many countries in Latin America have fashioned themselves as racial democracies or nations free from racism and with fluid racial

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The Mystique of Chica da Silva

February 24, 2023February 16, 2023 Menika Dirkson Brazil, Chica da Silva, Enslaved women, Gender, Latin America, slavery

“La negra tiene tumba’o, nunca camina de la’o.” -Celia Cruz In 1985, West German band Boney M. released its eighth album, Eye Dance,

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Blog Announcements: Meet the Editing Team!

July 21, 2022August 4, 2022 AAIHS Editors aaihs

The editing team of Black Perspectives is excited to begin the next academic year! Thank you for supporting us over

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The Spanish Slave Ship Carlotta “Denounced” By a Shark

June 22, 2022August 4, 2022 Aderivaldo Ramos de Santana Black Atlantic, Brazil, Carlotta, Haiti, Historiography, Shark, Slave Ship, Spain

On September 4, 2022, we remember an important date in the history of the Brazilian nation: 172 years since the

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Ecologies of Resistance: The Underground Railroad Ethnobotany Project

June 14, 2022June 13, 2022 Tony N. VanWinkle Resistance, slavery

“Gone are the century-old definitions of the Underground Railroad dominated by images of shivering, frightened fugitive slaves. Fading away are

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