Search Results for: slavery

Refusing the Biopolitical State: An Interview with Nathalie Batraville

November 6, 2019November 6, 2019 Rachel Zellars African Diaspora, biopolitics, black feminism, black radical tradition, Black women, Canada, education, Gender, Haiti, pedagogy, sexuality

In a first-of-its-kind study undertaken by political scientist Malinda Smith at University of Alberta in 2018, Smith found that Black professors

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Black Roots Tourism in Brazil

November 5, 2019October 26, 2019 Erica Williams African Diaspora, Afro-Brazilians, Brazil, Latin America, race, tourism, travel

Patricia de Santana Pinho’s Mapping Diaspora: African American Roots Tourism in Brazil is a compelling ethnography that explores the journeys

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Online Forum: Researching, Teaching, and Embodying the Black Diaspora

November 4, 2019November 4, 2019 AAIHS Editors #WorkingtheBlackDiaspora, African Diaspora, education, pedagogy, teaching

November 11–15, 2019 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum on researching, teaching,

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The Last Lynching Victim in South Carolina

October 31, 2019October 25, 2019 Brent M. S. Campney book review, Historical Memory, Jim Crow, lynching, Racial Violence, racism, South

In They Stole Him Out of Jail: Willie Earle, South Carolina’s Last Lynching Victim, William B. Gravely, professor emeritus at

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Sexual Violence Against Enslaved Men

October 29, 2019October 28, 2019 Kevin C. Quin masculinity, Racial Violence, sexual violence, sexuality, slavery

In Rethinking Rufus: Sexual Violations of Enslaved Men, historian Thomas Foster examines how the conditions of slavery gave rise to

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