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The Young Historians Project in Britain: An Interview with Hakim Adi

April 18, 2017April 21, 2017 Tiffany Florvil African Diaspora, Blacks in Britain, Caribbean

This month I interviewed Professor Hakim Adi about the Young Historians Project, a non-profit organization formed by young people to

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A Dual Emancipation: How Black Freedom Benefited Poor Whites

April 15, 2017April 18, 2017 Keri Leigh Merritt freedom, reconstruction, violence

Recently scholars have come to question “emancipation” as the proper terminology for describing the end of American slavery, preferring instead

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On Transnational Black Feminism

April 14, 2017April 17, 2017 Keisha N. Blain black feminism

At the recent OAH conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, I participated in a roundtable on “Transnational Circulations of Feminism in

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Black Feminist Futures: A Reading List

April 14, 2017April 17, 2017 Kathleen E. Bethel black feminism, black politics, Black women

In 1994, Ann duCille proclaimed that black feminism occupies a precarious status within the academy, due, in part, to its

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The Invisible Threads of Gender, Race, and Slavery

April 13, 2017June 22, 2017 Sasha Turner Black women, Gender, slave trade, slavery

On March 24, 2017 the United Nations commemorated its ten-year anniversary for the International Day of Remembrance honoring the Victims

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