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Toward a Synchronic Reading of Frederick Douglass

April 24, 2019April 22, 2019 Robert Levine #DouglassForward, Activism, Frederick Douglass, Resistance, slavery

*This post is part of the online forum on The Futures of Frederick Douglass. The contributions in this forum each

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The Trauma of Racial Violence in Frederick Douglass’s America

April 24, 2019April 22, 2019 Kay Wright Lewis #DouglassForward, black lives matter, black protest, Black women, civil rights, Frederick Douglass, police brutality, police violence, Racial Violence, racism

*This post is part of the online forum on The Futures of Frederick Douglass. The contributions in this forum each

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The Futures of Frederick Douglass: An Introduction

April 22, 2019April 22, 2019 Hélène Quanquin, Cécile Roudeau, and Michaël Roy #DouglassForward, abolitionism, Frederick Douglass, slavery

*This post is part of the online forum on The Futures of Frederick Douglass. The contributions in this forum each

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The ‘Baby Dolls’ of New Orleans: Gender, Race, and Self-Creation

April 19, 2019August 12, 2022 Grace D. Gipson black feminism, black protest, Black women, Gender, Resistance

“Is the unruly woman masker still relevant?” This question posed by Xavier University dean and professor Kim Vaz-Deville speaks to

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The Race of Disaster: Black Communities and the Crisis in Puerto Rico

April 17, 2019August 12, 2022 Hilda Lloréns African Diaspora, capitalism, Puerto Rico, Race and Economic History, Racial Capitalism

In this post, looking at the lives of Afro-Puerto Rican coastal foragers, I problematize the “disaster capitalism” orthodoxy, to probe

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