“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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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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Statues, Symbolism, and White Supremacy
Last month, protesters at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, the state’s flagship campus, surprised the nation by toppling the
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Marcus Garvey’s Vision of Pan-Africanism
This is an excerpt from Rupert Lewis’s Marcus Garvey (University of the West Indies Press, 2017). The book is part of the University
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Stuart Hall: “Familiar Stranger” of the Black Atlantic
Stuart Hall’s posthumous memoir, Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands, is the most recent entry in his eponymous book
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