Black Women and the Southampton Rebellion
In 2003, Kenneth Greenberg edited a collection of essays on the Southampton County, Virginia, slave revolt commonly known as Nat
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Author: Robert Colby
Did Europe Bring Homophobia to Africa?
Recently at a public forum, someone asked me if “same-sex relations in Africa [are] un-African?” While answering the question,
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Hair Discrimination and Global Politics of Anti-Blackness, Part 1
Recent cases of Black hair/style regulation and punishment in Britain, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United States reveal
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Sounding South Asian, Sounding Black: The Sonic Politics of Appreciation or Appropriation
On the dance floor, we dance to the same beats per minute (BPM). The tempo that structures Black diasporic life
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Jack Johnson and Africa: Boxing and Race in Colonial Africa
Jack Johnson never set foot in Africa, but the circulation of his images was heavily censored and sometimes prohibited in
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