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Aesthetic Insurgency: Sandra Bland’s Presence in Poetry

July 11, 2018July 13, 2018 Phillip Luke Sinitiere #SandraBlandForum, #sayhername, poetry, police brutality, police violence, Sandra Bland

This post is part of our online forum in honor of Sandra Bland, coinciding with the third anniversary of her death. The forum includes

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Black Women, Mental Health, and Slow Violence

July 10, 2018July 12, 2018 Alaina Morgan #SandraBlandForum, #sayhername, Black women, police brutality, police violence, Sandra Bland

This post is part of our online forum in honor of Sandra Bland, coinciding with the third anniversary of her death. The forum includes historical

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Stuart Hall: “Familiar Stranger” of the Black Atlantic

July 6, 2018July 9, 2018 Marlene Gaynair African Diaspora, Black Europe, Blacks in Britain, Caribbean, Jamaica

Stuart Hall’s posthumous memoir, Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands, is the most recent entry in his eponymous book

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Haitian and Dominican Freedom Struggles in the Nineteenth Century

July 2, 2018July 5, 2018 Sandy Placido Anticolonialism, Cuba, Haiti, Haitian Revolution, Puerto Rico

In We Dream Together: Dominican Independence, Haiti, and the Fight for Caribbean Freedom, historian Anne Eller cogently interprets the geopolitical shifts that

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“The Right to Laugh”: Remembering Jeffrey B. Ferguson

June 25, 2018July 1, 2018 David Blight #JeffreyFerguson, Harlem Renaissance, literature

This post is part of a week-long forum, organized by Mary Hicks, honoring Professor Jeffrey Brown Ferguson who passed away on

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