Post-war Representations of British Caribbean Food Markets
The proverbial “you are what you eat” suggests that what someone consumes is indicative of their overall health and their
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African Americans and the First Black Republic
It is difficult to talk about Haiti. For the past two months the island nation has been mired in violence
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Traditions of Resistance in the Black Diaspora
African resistance to American slavery originated at the moment African slavery in the Americas began. The first recorded enslaved Africans
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Clotil Walcott and Black Power in Trinidad and Tobago
This post is part of our forum on “Black Women’s Activism in the African Diaspora.” In June 1984 Trinidadian labor
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Examining Identity in Louisiana’s 19th-Century Black Literature
Slave narratives were a central genre of African American literature in antebellum America. Still, some authors wrote fiction works, the
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