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Rethinking Black Life on Turtle Island

March 27, 2019August 12, 2022 Rachel Zellars African Diaspora, Canada, Resistance, slavery

The history of Black peoples in Canada prior to the mid-nineteenth century is a complex and transnational story. In popular

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On the Blackness of Flamenco

March 26, 2019August 12, 2022 Nicholas R. Jones African Diaspora, Black Europe, culture, dance

Bubbling with duende—the flamenco lexicon for expressing a performer’s enchanting spirit, graceful power, and soulful it-factor—K. Meira Goldberg’s Sonidos Negros: On

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Black Women’s Resistance to Sexual Violence

March 22, 2019August 12, 2022 Cécile Yézou archives, black feminism, Black women, Gender, race, Racial Violence, Resistance

Mary told her family story to Charles Houston as part of the “Behind the Veil” oral history project undertaken by Duke University’s

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Beulah Richardson Charges Genocide

March 21, 2019August 12, 2022 Denise Lynn Activism, Black women, Civil Rights Movement, Racial Violence, Resistance

In 1951, William Patterson, the national secretary of the Civil Rights Congress (CRC), a communist affiliated legal organization, presented the

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Dockworker Power: A New Book on Labor Activism in South Africa and the United States

March 20, 2019August 12, 2022 Skyler Gordon Activism, black internationalism, black politics, black protest

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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