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Thinking with Black Diasporic Intellectual Production

April 12, 2016April 12, 2016 Jessica Marie Johnson black intellectual history, black protest, Black women, Caribbean, slavery

On April 5, AAIHS blogger Chris Cameron described five approaches to African American Intellectual History. Cameron’s approaches included intellectual history

Making Freedom in Colonial Antigua: An Interview with Natasha Lightfoot

April 4, 2016April 4, 2016 Reena Goldthree Antigua, Black women, Caribbean, emancipation, slavery

This month, I interviewed historian Natasha Lightfoot about her new book, Troubling Freedom: Antigua and the Aftermath of British Emancipation

Una Marson: Cultural and Literary Nationalist

March 26, 2016March 26, 2016 Guest Poster Caribbean

This is a guest post by Lisa Tomlinson, a Jamaican researcher and scholar residing in Kingston, Jamaica. Her area of

Antiracism and the Cuban Revolution: An Interview with Devyn Spence Benson

March 8, 2016March 7, 2016 Reena Goldthree Caribbean, Cuba, Fidel Castro, Malcolm X

This month, I interviewed historian Devyn Spence Benson about her forthcoming book, Antiracism in Cuba: The Unfinished Revolution (University of

Tracing Early Black Intellectual Networks

February 22, 2016February 21, 2016 Jared Hardesty black intellectual history, black politics, Caribbean, slavery

In my continuing series on early African American intellectual life, today I want to examine early black intellectual networks by