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There Is No ‘Relatively Benign’ Version of Settler-Colonialism

October 28, 2019October 19, 2019 Yannick Marshall African Diaspora, Anticolonialism, black politics, black protest, Canada, colonialism, Resistance

I might be made to agree with Erna Paris that using the term “genocide” in reference to Canada’s treatment of indigenous populations

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Rosalyn Terborg-Penn’s African Feminist Theory and Praxis

October 21, 2019October 20, 2019 Sasha Turner #RosalynTerborgPenn, African Diaspora, black feminism, Black women, Caribbean, education, Gender, race, slavery

*This post is part of our online forum organized by Stephen G. Hall honoring the life and work of Dr. Rosalyn

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Black Patriotism and Black Death in the Aftermath of the American Revolution

October 16, 2019October 9, 2019 Adam McNeil black soldiers, capitalism, freedom, military, race, Racial Capitalism, slavery

On June 15, 1776, Lucretia Pritchett petitioned the Virginia Convention seeking reparations for the deceased enslaved man over whom she

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Online Forum: Honoring the Life and Work of Dr. Rosalyn Terborg-Penn

October 14, 2019October 14, 2019 AAIHS Editors #RosalynTerborgPenn, aaihs, forum

October 21–24, 2019 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online forum honoring the life

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Diasporic Salutations and the West African Origins of the ‘Dap’

October 14, 2019October 9, 2019 Tyler Parry African Diaspora, popular culture, Resistance, slavery

Until recently, the salutations of Black America were an anomaly to mainstream white Americans. The verbal expressions, hand gestures, and

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