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Black Madness: A New Book About Blackness and Disability

May 10, 2019April 29, 2019 J. T. Roane blackness, disability, embodiment, race

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

The Historical Significance of Black Queer Films

March 7, 2019March 9, 2019 Emerald Rutledge Black film, Black Queers, blackness, Essex Hemphill, hip hop, Marlon Riggs, sexuality

In the context of the reemergence of Black nationalist rhetoric and ideologies in hip-hop music in the late 1980s and

Arturo Schomburg in Mind, Body, and Spirit

February 19, 2019March 31, 2019 Regina Mills African Diaspora, archives, blackness, book review, race

Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, known to many by his anglicized name Arthur A. Schomburg, is no stranger to most African American

Beyond the Black Paradigm? Queer Afro-diasporic Strategies

October 22, 2018November 3, 2018 Fatima El-Tayeb African Diaspora, Black Europe, Black Europe Series, Black German, Black Queers, blackness, Racial Capitalism

*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

“Chocolate City, Chessboard City”: Black Vitality in Renaissance Seville

October 16, 2018October 17, 2018 Nicholas R. Jones African Diaspora, Black Europe, blackness, race

Seville, Spain at the height of the Renaissance bustled like a chocolate city–to borrow from Marcus Anthony Hunter and Zandria F. Robinson‘s masterful