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Stokely Carmichael of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee speaks at Florida A&M University, 1967. Source: Black on Campus.

The Absence of Political Economy in African Diaspora Studies

March 20, 2018March 26, 2018 Charisse Burden-Stelly African Diaspora, Black Studies, education, education reform, Pan-Africanism

The Black Studies movement, inaugurated in the late 1960s by student- and community-based demands for a “more relevant education,” represented

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The Pursuit of Happiness: A New Book on Black Women’s Travels Abroad

March 2, 2018March 5, 2018 Keisha N. Blain African Diaspora, black politics, Black women, blackness, Jamaica, travel

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

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"Cruelties of slavery." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1835-05.

Surviving Slavery in the British Caribbean: A New Book on Atlantic Slavery

January 27, 2018February 2, 2018 Keisha N. Blain African Diaspora, archives, Caribbean, freedom, slavery

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

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Dismantling Whiteness as the Beauty Standard

December 9, 2017December 14, 2017 Sasha Turner African Diaspora, Black women, blackness, Colorism, Resistance, slavery, white supremacy

Miss Jamaica Davina Bennett rejected Eurocentric beauty ideals when she sported her afro at this year’s Miss Universe Pageant. Bennett had

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Black Death and the Possibilities for Diasporic Solidarity

October 10, 2017October 16, 2017 Nicole Jackson Activism, African Diaspora, Black Europe, black internationalism, police violence

In the aftermath of Mike Brown’s 2014 death, comparatively small Black populations in London, Berlin and Amsterdam spearheaded solidarity marches

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