Questions You Might Have Opinions About: Self-critique, Language, The Nadir, and Historical Accuracy in a Film (*not Selma)
This post is a bit more informal than the carefully researched posts of my colleagues on this blog. I would
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Insanity, the Historian, and the Slave Catcher: “Capturing” Black Voices
First an episode from nineteenth-century Brazil: in 1895 Raimundo Nina Rodrigues, a forensic psychiatrist at the University of Bahia in
Read moreThe “Black Republic:” The Meaning of Haitian Independence before the Occupation
This is the second entry in a series on the centennial of the U.S. occupation of Haiti. The introduction to
Read moreAudience, Personal Experience and the Teaching of African American Intellectual History
Just recently, an African American student meeting me in office hours surprisingly and enthusiastically commented that my class was the
Read moreAuthor Interview: Lindsey R. Swindall on Southern Civil Rights and Anticolonialism
Today’s guest post comes from Phillip Luke Sinitiere, currently a professor of history at the College of Biblical Studies, a
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