Insanity, the Historian, and the Slave Catcher: “Capturing” Black Voices
First an episode from nineteenth-century Brazil: in 1895 Raimundo Nina Rodrigues, a forensic psychiatrist at the University of Bahia in
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Died of a theory
It’s been interesting to read the recent controversy over the existence and prevalence of “black Confederates” during the Civil War.
Read moreBetween Latin America and the African Diaspora?
“Well obviously we need another Latin Americanist, because when ‘X’ leaves, we won’t have anybody who does Latin America anymore.”
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