Beyond the Black Paradigm? Queer Afro-diasporic Strategies
*This post is part of our new blog series on Black Europe. This series, edited by Kira Thurman and Anne-Marie Angelo, explores what it means to
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The Black Convention Movement and Black Politics in Nineteenth-Century America
African American leaders throughout the nineteenth century recognized the significance of creating and sustaining national organizations that were built upon
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Black Women in the Army during World War II
Sandra M. Bolzenius’s Glory in Their Spirit: How Four Black Women Took On the Army During World War II details
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Slavery and a Transnational History of Reparations
Reparations for slavery are arguably the biggest global question facing the African Diaspora in the twenty-first-century. In her new book,
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The Complex Life of Writer Chester B. Himes
The prologue to Lawrence P. Jackson’s biography of Chester Himes begins with the twenty-five-year-old Himes sitting at a typewriter in
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