Frederick Douglass’s Radical Imagination
*This post is part of our online forum on the life of Frederick Douglass. Often on Sunday afternoons, a teenage Frederick Douglass
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The Relationship between Blackness and Europeanness
*This post is part of our blog series on Black Europe. This series, edited by Kira Thurman and Anne-Marie Angelo, explores what it means to
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Black Lives Matter: Not a Moment, But a Movement
Though it was first created as a hashtag in 2013 as a response to Trayvon Martin’s death at the hands
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“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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Broomsticks and Material Cultures of Cleanliness in American Slavery
In 1901 preeminent Black Sociologist W.E.B. Du Dois published an essay entitled, “The Home of the Slave,” which detailed his
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