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“Black People and the Victorian Ethos:” Respectability Politics, Black Organizing, and Black Power

March 17, 2015March 17, 2015 Ashley Farmer

When someone is engaging in respectability politics, he or she is adopts the manners and morality of the dominant or

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“Ask Forgiveness from Dessalines:” Debating Haitian Independence on the Eve of Occupation

March 13, 2015March 13, 2015 Brandon Byrd Assimilationism, Haiti, imperialism, William Pickens

This is the third entry in a series on the centennial of the U.S. occupation of Haiti. The previous post

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On “Transpacific Antiracism”: An Interview with Yuichiro Onishi

February 26, 2015February 25, 2015 Keisha N. Blain Afro-Asia, Japan, W.E.B. Du Bois

This post is the second of a series on Afro-Asia in which I explore the myriad political strategies, alliances, and

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“Black Messiah” and the (Re)Surgence of Black Love

January 19, 2015January 23, 2015 Rhon Manigault-Bryant

I spent the latter portion of 2014 feeling like I was waking up in a veritable Groundhog Day (1993) remake,

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Between Latin America and the African Diaspora?

January 17, 2015January 18, 2015 Greg Childs

“Well obviously we need another Latin Americanist, because when ‘X’ leaves, we won’t have anybody who does Latin America anymore.”

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