Blackness, a Haunted History
Historians generally frame their writing and research around the notion of change over time, assuming that time moves forward. But
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The Erasure of People of African Descent in Nazi Germany
Recently, Donald Trump’s press secretary Sean Spicer made some peculiar and offensive comments comparing Syrian leader President Bashar al-Assad’s chemical
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The Young Historians Project in Britain: An Interview with Hakim Adi
This month I interviewed Professor Hakim Adi about the Young Historians Project, a non-profit organization formed by young people to
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On Transnational Black Feminism
At the recent OAH conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, I participated in a roundtable on “Transnational Circulations of Feminism in
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Black Feminist Futures: A Reading List
In 1994, Ann duCille proclaimed that black feminism occupies a precarious status within the academy, due, in part, to its
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