Black Patriotism and Black Death in the Aftermath of the American Revolution
On June 15, 1776, Lucretia Pritchett petitioned the Virginia Convention seeking reparations for the deceased enslaved man over whom she
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Racial Capitalism
‘Dockworker Power’: Transnational Struggles for Justice
Dockworkers are a favorite subject for many labor historians—including myself. Historically, they have proven themselves reliably radical and strike-prone, and
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Deferred Freedom Dreams in the Quest for Black Economic Citizenship
A little more than 153 years ago, in the aftermath of the Civil War, Radical Republicans in the United States
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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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Beyond the Black Paradigm? Queer Afro-diasporic Strategies
*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
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