Mapping Downtown Asheville Through Protest: Black Lives Matter and Public Spaces
This is a guest post by Nathan H. Dize, a PhD student in the Department of French and Italian at
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A ‘Club’ No Black Woman Wants to Join: Confronting the Aftermath of Black Death
I have found myself having to write, yet again, in the midst of racial, political, and social tumult. Recent events
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“Americans Have Carried American Hatred”: Black Intellectuals, Imperialism and Policing
“Don’t you see no connection between atom-bomb-dropping in Japan and shin-kicking in Virginia?” asked Simple. “No direct connection,” I said.
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La Esclava Blanca: The New Telenovela Rewriting Colombia’s History of Slavery
This is a guest post by Yesenia Barragan, a historian of race, slavery, and emancipation in Colombia, Afro-Latin America, and
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Remembering Phillis Wheatley
In my last post, I commented on a specific newspaper piece from the May 18, 1827 edition of Freedom’s Journal,
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