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Writing Antiracism in Cuba: An Author’s Response

November 11, 2017November 20, 2017 Devyn Spence Benson #AntiracismInCuba, Cuba

This post is part of our online roundtable on Devyn Spence Benson’s Antiracism in Cuba. I still remember the first paper I wrote

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Centering the Voices of Black Activists in Post-Revolutionary Cuba

November 9, 2017November 13, 2017 Melina Pappademos #AAIHSRoundtable, #AntiracismInCuba, Afro-Cubans, Cuba

This post is part of our online roundtable on Devyn Spence Benson’s Antiracism in Cuba. There are few in the United States who

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Contesting the Myth of (Revolutionary) Racial Harmony

November 8, 2017November 13, 2017 Yesenia Barragan #AntiracismInCuba, Afro-Cubans, Cuba, race

This post is part of our online roundtable on Devyn Spence Benson’s Antiracism in Cuba. Just three months after revolutionary

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The Afro-Asian Writers Association and Soviet Engagement with Africa

November 2, 2017November 6, 2017 Rossen Djagalov Afro-Asia, Black October, Russian Revolution, W.E.B. Du Bois

This post is part of our online forum, “Black October,” on the Russian Revolution and the African Diaspora In October 1958, over

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The Marxist Proposition, Claudia Jones, and Black Nationalism

November 1, 2017November 4, 2017 Denise Lynn black nationalism, Black October, Claudia Jones, Marxism, Russia

This post is part of our online forum, “Black October,” on the Russian Revolution and the African Diaspora Many in the American

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