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Making Freedom in Colonial Antigua: An Interview with Natasha Lightfoot

April 4, 2016April 4, 2016 Reena Goldthree Antigua, Black women, Caribbean, emancipation, slavery

This month, I interviewed historian Natasha Lightfoot about her new book, Troubling Freedom: Antigua and the Aftermath of British Emancipation

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The Mysterious Thelma X and the Struggle of Black Domestic Workers

April 3, 2016April 3, 2016 Garrett Felber black nationalism, Black women, Nation of Islam

Several years ago, I was looking through the papers of sociologist C. Eric Lincoln at the Robert W. Woodruff Library

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Global Garveyism: Mapping Those at Home and Abroad

April 1, 2016January 1, 2017 Guest Poster Garveyism, Marcus Garvey, Universal Negro Improvement Association

This is a guest post by Adam Ewing, an Assistant Professor of African American Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. He

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The ‘Capitalized Womb’: A Review of Ned and Constance Sublette’s The American Slave Coast

March 31, 2016March 31, 2016 Kellie Carter Jackson black politics, Black women, slavery

Recently, I was asked to sit on a panel at the CUNY Graduate Center to discuss Ned & Constance Sublette’s

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Black Internationalism, Booker T. Washington, and the German Empire in Africa

March 30, 2016March 30, 2016 Guest Poster

This is a guest post by Marius Kothor, a PhD student in the Department of History at the University of

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