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‘Racialization works differently here in Puerto Rico, do not bring your U.S.-centric ideas about race here!’

March 3, 2020March 1, 2020 Hilda Lloréns Activism, African Diaspora, Afro-Latin, Afro-Latinx, Afrxlatinidad, black internationalism, Caribbean, Latin America, Puerto Rican history, Puerto Rico, racism

This title is a variation of a statement I have heard during the last two decades as a professional anthropologist.

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A Political Education: An Author’s Response

February 28, 2020February 23, 2020 Elizabeth Todd-Breland #AAIHSRoundtable, #APoliticalEducation, Activism, Black women, education, education reform, organizing, teaching

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Elizabeth Todd-Breland’s A Political Education: Black Politics and Education Reform in Chicago Since

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A Meditation on Natural Light and the Use of Fire in United States Slavery

January 13, 2020January 12, 2020 Tyler Parry black rebellion, environment, Racial Violence, Resistance, slavery, white supremacy

In her September 16, 2019 post for Black Perspectives, “Race and the Paradoxes of the Night,” cultural anthropologist Celeste Henery

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Holloway House and the Black Literary Underground

December 5, 2019November 30, 2019 Matthew Teutsch book review, culture, literature, popular culture, publishing, race

How do authors such as Robert Beck (Iceberg Slim) and Donald Goines go from catering to white audiences with “black

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Living with Crises in Port-au-Prince

December 4, 2019November 30, 2019 Antony Keane-Dawes book review, Caribbean, Haiti, Haitian Revolution, Race and Economic History

Based on a decade’s worth of research in Haiti, the United States, and Canada, There is No More Haiti: Between

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