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Violence, Empathy, and Solidarity, in the New History of Policing

April 6, 2020April 5, 2020 Dan Berger #AAIHSRoundtable, #OccupiedTerritory, carceral state, mass incarceration, police brutality, police violence, policing

*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with the Journal of Civil and Human Rights on Simon Balto’s Occupied Territory: Policing

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Runaway Genres and the Global Legacy of Slavery

April 1, 2020March 29, 2020 Iana Robitaille literature, slavery

In her sweeping monograph Runaway Genres: The Global Afterlives of Slavery, Yogita Goyal takes up the legacy of the American

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Black Queer Asylum and The Year of Return

March 30, 2020March 29, 2020 Celeste Henery African Diaspora, Black Queer Identity, Immigration, LGBT

In the wake of Black History Month, I turn towards Black relations: of blood, of nation, of necessity, and the

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Cuban Literature in the Age of Black Insurrection: A New Book on Afro-Cuban Writers and Diasporic Religions

March 27, 2020March 27, 2020 AAIHS Editors Afro-Cubans, Age of Revolutions, Haitian Revolution, literature

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

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Surviving Slavery: Contests Over Bondage in Berbice

March 26, 2020March 22, 2020 Andrew Kettler African Diaspora, law, slavery, South America

Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean concentrates on the question of agency, whereby narratives of life on plantations in Berbice

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