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Marronage and Normativity

June 16, 2016June 10, 2016 Greg Childs #FreedomAAIHS, marronage

This is the fourth day of our roundtable on Neil Roberts’s Freedom as Marronage. We began with an introduction by

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What Obama’s Trip to Havana Revealed about Race in Cuba and the U.S.

May 5, 2016May 5, 2016 Devyn Spence Benson Afrxlatinidad, Barack Obama, black politics, Caribbean, Cuba

During his groundbreaking visit to Havana last month, President Barack Obama suggested that the embrace of U.S.-style democracy and capitalism

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Leveraging the Law

April 22, 2016April 21, 2016 Jared Hardesty black intellectual history, colonial America

In the 1670s, an enslaved woman named Hannah appeared before Boston’s criminal court accused of stealing surgical equipment from Daniel

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On Michelle Wright’s Physics of Blackness

April 20, 2016April 20, 2016 Guest Poster blackness, feminism

This is a guest post by Julietta Hua, an Associate Professor in the Department of Women and Gender Studies at

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Singing the Soul Free: Gullah/Geechee Religion and Practice

April 19, 2016April 19, 2016 Rhon Manigault-Bryant

Last week, I had the great opportunity to give a talk at the College of Charleston. Guided by my research

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