“The Most Important Place in the World”: On Puerto Rico and the Freedom Struggle
Though the United States has colonized Puerto Rico since 1898, when the country took the island as booty in the
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Puerto Rico
The Race of Disaster: Black Communities and the Crisis in Puerto Rico
In this post, looking at the lives of Afro-Puerto Rican coastal foragers, I problematize the “disaster capitalism” orthodoxy, to probe
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Haitian and Dominican Freedom Struggles in the Nineteenth Century
In We Dream Together: Dominican Independence, Haiti, and the Fight for Caribbean Freedom, historian Anne Eller cogently interprets the geopolitical shifts that
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How African American Activists are Influencing Latinos
Politicized by Black Lives Matter, Latinos across the country are calling for police reform and direct, organized actions by building
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A Global Vision: Ana Livia Cordero and the Puerto Rican Liberation Struggle
*This is the final post in our blog series on Women, Gender and Pan-Africanism edited by Keisha N. Blain. Blog
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