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How Enslaved People Found A Pathway to Self-discovery

February 10, 2021February 8, 2021 Tyler Parry africa, religion, slavery

In 1837, Charles Ball published a memoir recounting his experience as one enslaved for forty years in the states of

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African Americans and Africa: A New Book about Black America’s Relationship with the Continent

January 17, 2020January 16, 2020 AAIHS Editors africa, African Diaspora, black internationalism, Pan-Africanism, race

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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1619?

January 14, 2020January 12, 2020 Sasha Turner africa, African Diaspora, archives, Historical Memory, slave trade, slavery

We are living in a “memory boom” he says. From Charleston to New York, the national mall and university halls,

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Worldmaking after Empire: An Author’s Response

November 29, 2019November 24, 2019 Adom Getachew #AAIHSRoundtable, #WorldmakingafterEmpire, africa, African Diaspora, Anticolonialism, black internationalism, Caribbean, colonialism, decolonization

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Adom Getachew’s Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination I want to thank

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Gender, Blackness, and the Oppression Olympics

November 13, 2019November 11, 2019 Jesús Gregorio Smith #WorkingtheBlackDiaspora, africa, African Diaspora, education, Gender, pedagogy, sexuality, teaching

*This post is part of our online forum organized by Drs. Charisse Burden-Stelly and Crystal Moten titled “Researching, Teaching, and Embodying

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