Making Freedom in Colonial Antigua: An Interview with Natasha Lightfoot
This month, I interviewed historian Natasha Lightfoot about her new book, Troubling Freedom: Antigua and the Aftermath of British Emancipation
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Black women
The Mysterious Thelma X and the Struggle of Black Domestic Workers
Several years ago, I was looking through the papers of sociologist C. Eric Lincoln at the Robert W. Woodruff Library
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The ‘Capitalized Womb’: A Review of Ned and Constance Sublette’s The American Slave Coast
Recently, I was asked to sit on a panel at the CUNY Graduate Center to discuss Ned & Constance Sublette’s
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Eslanda Robeson’s African Journeys
This is a guest post by Dr. Annette Joseph-Gabriel, a scholar of Francophone Caribbean literature and culture. Her areas of
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Readings on Black Women’s Internationalism
In recent years, the field of black internationalism has grown in leaps and bounds. Scholars are moving further away from
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