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The Relationship between Blackness and Europeanness

November 20, 2018November 26, 2018 Noémi Michel African Diaspora, Black Europe, Black Europe Series, black internationalism, race, Resistance

*This post is part of our blog series on Black Europe. This series, edited by Kira Thurman and Anne-Marie Angelo, explores what it means to

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From Protestant Supremacy to Christian Slavery

November 20, 2018November 26, 2018 Christopher Cannon Jones race, racism, religion, slavery

Early in the morning on April 7, 1712, a group of approximately thirty enslaved individuals launched a dramatic revolt, killing

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Weathering the Transatlantic Slave Trade’s Final Odysseys

November 16, 2018November 20, 2018 Mary E. Hicks slave trade, slavery, South Carolina

The transatlantic slave trade, which endured for over 400 years, stitched together disparate, and as Sharla Fett reminds us, often

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‘New Perspectives on the Black Intellectual Tradition’: A New Book on Black Thinkers in the US and Abroad

November 15, 2018November 19, 2018 Melissa N. Shaw black intellectual history

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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Documenting Racial Violence Through Photography

November 13, 2018December 10, 2018 Matthew Teutsch Activism, photography, Racial Violence

Earlier this year, John Ira Jennings and Damian Duffy’s graphic novel adaptation of Octavia Butler’s Kindred (1979) won the 2018

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