‘Ten Days in Harlem’: An Interview with Historian Simon Hall
In today’s piece, blogger Say Burgin interviews historian Simon Hall, a former Fox International Fellow at Yale, is currently Professor of
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Blackness, Freedom, and the Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana
Becoming Free, Becoming Black: Race, Freedom, and Law in Cuba, Virginia, and Louisiana radically reorients our perspective on Blackness and slavery
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Transnational Legacies of Slavery and Revolution in ‘The Black Scholar’
Some months after visiting Havana, Cuba in late fall of 1976, Robert Chrisman — editor-in-chief of the journal The Black Scholar —
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(Anti)Blackness, Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution, and Guaidó’s Attempted Coup
On January 23, 2019 with the support of US Vice President Mike Pence, Juan Guaidó, a white supremacist, anti-people, opposition
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The Common Wind of the African Diaspora
Julius Scott’s The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution is one of the academy’s worst-kept secrets.
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