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Teaching Quilombismo: An Afro-Brazilian Political Philosophy

October 11, 2016October 11, 2016 Laura Premack Brazil

In 1980, Abdias do Nascimento, one of Brazil’s greatest black activists and intellectuals, published a seminal essay titled “Quilombismo: An Afro-Brazilian

#BrazilFreedomSchool, Anti-Black Violence, and the Rio Olympics: An Interview with Christen Smith

September 25, 2016September 24, 2016 Yesenia Barragan #BlackLivesMatter, Brazil

This month I interviewed Professor Christen Smith (@profsassy), Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies and Anthropology at University

A Tale of Two Graffitis: The American Tag and the Brazilian Pixação

September 23, 2016September 23, 2016 Greg Childs Brazil, Politics

In 1970 on the U.S. East Coast, before there were murals or graffiti “pieces,” even before people began experimenting with

Revisiting Palmares: Maroon Communities in Brazil (Celeste Henery)

November 9, 2015April 24, 2016 Guest Poster Brazil

This is a guest post by Celeste Henery, a Research Associate at the University of Texas at Austin (UT) in the

Dominican Crossroads: An Interview with Christina C. Davidson

April 7, 2025April 7, 2025 Kiana Knight 1 Comment

In today’s post, Kiana Knight, a PhD candidate in Africana Studies at Brown University, interviews interdisciplinary historian Christiana C. Davidson about