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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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Insanity, the Historian, and the Slave Catcher: “Capturing” Black Voices

February 15, 2015February 17, 2015 Greg Childs

First an episode from nineteenth-century Brazil: in 1895 Raimundo Nina Rodrigues, a forensic psychiatrist at the University of Bahia in

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Dispatches from Shondalandia by a Slavery Historian (Vol. 2)

February 12, 2015February 12, 2015 Jessica Marie Johnson black feminism, feminism, law, reconstruction, slavery

“I am not yours.” – Kerry Washington as Olivia Pope, Scandal 2 X 3 “You might be Command, Dad, but

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The Deep Roots of Afro-Asia

January 30, 2015February 11, 2016 Keisha N. Blain Afro-Asia

This post is the first of a short series on Afro-Asia—the cultural and political exchanges and historical connections between people

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Brooklyn Stands With Selma

January 16, 2015January 24, 2015 Brian Purnell

The following excerpt comes from the conclusion of my book, Fighting Jim Crow in the County of Kings: The Congress

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