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Winning Our Freedoms Together: A New Book on African Americans and South Africans

March 12, 2018March 15, 2018 Keisha N. Blain black internationalism, Resistance, South Africa

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

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The Environment as Freedom: A Decolonial Reimagining

June 24, 2017June 27, 2017 Malini Ranganathan black politics, freedom

“The environmental movement is, in my view, the greatest threat to freedom and prosperity in the modern world” said Myron

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Historicizing Freedom and Black Abolitionism

April 12, 2017April 15, 2017 Chernoh Sesay Jr. black intellectual history, black politics, black protest, emancipation, slavery

More than a year ago, I wrote about the idea of hope relative to northern black activism during the American

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Suspect Freedoms: A New Book on Afro-Cubans in New York

January 9, 2017January 11, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi Afro-Cubans, Anticolonialism, Immigration, Latin America, Latino/a

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

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A Bandung Conference in Harlem: The Meaning of Castro’s Visit Uptown

December 1, 2016November 30, 2016 Garrett Felber Anticolonialism, Cuba, Malcolm X, New York

Since Fidel Castro passed away last Friday, news coverage has been predictably polarizing: from celebrating his commitment to anticolonial liberation

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