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The Afterlives of Migration in Panama and its Diaspora

May 29, 2023May 27, 2023 Sharika D. Crawford #AAIHSRoundtable, #PanamaInBlack, black internationalism

This post is part of our online roundtable on Kaysha Corinealdi’s Panama in Black. In the last decades of the nineteenth

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2023 Finalists for the Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History

March 8, 2023March 7, 2023 AAIHS Editors #AAIHSConference, AAIHS23, Book Award, conference, Pauli Murray, Pauli Murray Book Award Finalists

    The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) is pleased to announce the finalists for the fifth annual Pauli

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The Mystique of Chica da Silva

February 24, 2023February 16, 2023 Menika Dirkson Brazil, Chica da Silva, Enslaved women, Gender, Latin America, slavery

“La negra tiene tumba’o, nunca camina de la’o.” -Celia Cruz In 1985, West German band Boney M. released its eighth album, Eye Dance,

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“The times requires this testimony”: William Still’s The Underground Railroad

December 5, 2022December 4, 2022 Julia W. Bernier Activism, slavery

William Still, the leader of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society (PAS) Vigilance Committee, kept meticulous records on the hundreds of women

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Tracing the Pan-African Foundations of Transnational Black Feminism

November 28, 2022November 25, 2022 Ashley Everson black feminism, Black women, Gender, Pan-Africanism

Following her deportation from New York to London, England, Black communist Claudia Jones expanded the scope of her leftist, anti-imperial

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