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CFP: Ideas of Race in Latin America

March 3, 2023March 1, 2023 AAIHS Editors Activism, African Diaspora, CFP, Latin America, race

Many countries in Latin America have fashioned themselves as racial democracies or nations free from racism and with fluid racial

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Black Women and the Racialization of Infanticide

March 2, 2023March 1, 2023 Rebekka Michaelsen Black women, Infanticide, Margaret Garner, Pregnancy, Reproductive Rights, Women

“Knowledge of the human body constituted a form of property as important – or even more important than – the

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Black Student Activism and the Origins of the Stanford Canon Debate

March 1, 2023February 27, 2023 Brandon James Render Black Student Union, Curriculum, education, Higher education, Stanford, student activism

In the late 1980s, the Stanford University Black Student Union stood at the center of a controversy involving the school’s

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Conversations in Black Freedom Studies: An Interview

February 28, 2023February 26, 2023 Lucien Baskin black intellectual history, CBFS, Civil Rights Movement

Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Curated

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The Mystique of Chica da Silva

February 24, 2023February 16, 2023 Menika Dirkson Brazil, Chica da Silva, Enslaved women, Gender, Latin America, slavery

“La negra tiene tumba’o, nunca camina de la’o.” -Celia Cruz In 1985, West German band Boney M. released its eighth album, Eye Dance,

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