“They’re Chatterboxes with their Feet”: Black Dances in Early Modern Spain
In his Premática del Tiempo (1628; 1648), Francisco de Quevedo berates Black African slave culture flourishing on Spanish soil. What
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African Diaspora
German Appropriation of Black Popular Culture
Black German Studies has focused on women’s writing over the past thirty years. Priscilla Layne’s White Rebels in Black is
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Race Women Internationalists and Global Black Freedom Struggles
In her 1932 article entitled “The Awakening of Race Consciousness among Black Students,” Afro-Jamaican intellectual Una Marson advanced a theory
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Beyond the Black Paradigm? Queer Afro-diasporic Strategies
*This post is part of our new blog series on Black Europe. This series, edited by Kira Thurman and Anne-Marie Angelo, explores what it means to
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Slavery and a Transnational History of Reparations
Reparations for slavery are arguably the biggest global question facing the African Diaspora in the twenty-first-century. In her new book,
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