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Mapping Black Antiquity

November 11, 2021November 11, 2021 Sarah Derbew africa, Antiquity, classics, Egypt, Ethiopia, Greek, Rome

Consider the vagaries surrounding the label “antiquity”: whose antiquity do you imagine to be the norm? Greece? Rome? Africa? For

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Expanding the Digital Black Atlantic

November 4, 2021November 4, 2021 Roopika Risam #BlackAtlantics, African Diaspora, Black Atlantic, Black Digital Humanities, Digital Humanities, W.E.B. Du Bois

*This post is part of our roundtable “Digital Black Atlantics.” The essays published in the Digital Black Atlantics forum this

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Torpedoing Black Radicalism: The Case of Hugh Mulzac

October 28, 2021October 26, 2021 Tony Pecinovsky Alphaeus Hunton, Anti-Communism, Black Veterans, Communism, Hugh Mulzac, Labor Movement, Marian Anderson, McCarthyism, Socialism, WWII

  It was late October 1942. The crew of the Liberty Ship Booker T. Washington had just “lashed down the last crate

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The Rise and Fall of an Afro-Brazilian Publisher

October 20, 2021October 19, 2021 Celso Thomas Castilho black intellectual history, Resistance, slavery

Francisco de Paula Brito (1808-61), an Afro-Brazilian man of letters, “a son and grandson of freedpersons,” catalyzed critical transformations in

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Hair Discrimination and Global Politics of Anti-Blackness, Part 1

October 19, 2021October 18, 2021 Adele Norris black feminism, black hair, black identity, Black Power, Black women, black youth

  Recent cases of Black hair/style regulation and punishment in Britain, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United States reveal

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