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Doing and Being Intellectual History: #Formation as Curated by Black Women

February 12, 2016January 14, 2017 Jessica Marie Johnson black feminism, Black women, digital media, slavery

“From the city of New Orleans, we unite these narratives to assert undeniably that WE REMAIN.” – Back Cover, Mixed

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Thinking About the ‘X’

December 12, 2015December 14, 2015 Jessica Marie Johnson Afrxlatinidad, Caribbean, colonial America, empire, Latin America, slave trade, slavery

As the year winds down, I find myself, like my AAIHS colleague Noelle Trent, reflecting on 2015, on conversations that

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Black Death: Gore, Geographies and the Gallows in Jamaica

October 12, 2015October 12, 2015 Jessica Marie Johnson black soldiers, Caribbean, primary source, slavery

One evening, on a road in Jamaica, a soldier belonging to the “Mulatto Company” made his evening rounds. He came

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“Concede Nothing” – How to Remember a Storm Ten Years Later

September 12, 2015September 13, 2015 Jessica Marie Johnson Activism, black intellectual history, black politics, black protest, slavery

This year marked ten years since Hurricane Katrina made landfall. To say New Orleans and the entire Gulf Coast would

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Charnesia Corley & a Storify for the #blkwomensyllabus

August 13, 2015August 13, 2015 Jessica Marie Johnson #sayhername, black feminism, teaching

This past Monday, a young black woman in Texas named Charnesia Corley was stopped by the police as she ran

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