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A Meditation on Natural Light and the Use of Fire in United States Slavery

January 13, 2020January 12, 2020 Tyler Parry black rebellion, environment, Racial Violence, Resistance, slavery, white supremacy

In her September 16, 2019 post for Black Perspectives, “Race and the Paradoxes of the Night,” cultural anthropologist Celeste Henery

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Confronting Data Capitalism: An Interview with Grassroots Organizer Tamika Blu

September 26, 2019September 23, 2019 Ajamu Amiri Dillahunt #BlackOrganizingToday, Activism, black lives matter, black politics, black protest, black radical tradition, Black radicalism, capitalism, police brutality, Resistance

This post is part of our Black Organizing Today Series. This series, edited by Ajamu Amiri Dillahunt, consists of interviews highlighting

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Why the United States Needs More Museums about Slavery and Abolition, Not Another About the Civil War

July 11, 2019July 1, 2019 Marlene L. Daut African Diaspora, archives, Civil War, education, Frederick Douglass, museums, Post-Civil War, Public History, race, slavery

When I first stepped into the foyer of the brand new American Civil War Museum at Historic Tredegar in Richmond, Virginia, I

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The Common Wind of the African Diaspora

July 5, 2019July 5, 2019 Kevin Dawson academia, academic publishing, African Diaspora, black intellectual history, Caribbean, Cuba, Haiti, race, Resistance, slavery

Julius Scott’s The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution is one of the academy’s worst-kept secrets.

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Liberalism, Emancipation, and the Atlantic World

June 27, 2019June 26, 2019 Adriana Chira Activism, African Diaspora, black politics, capitalism, Caribbean, Haiti, nation, race, slavery

George Hackett’s trajectory simmered with the tensions that defined the Age of Emancipations. Hackett was born at the turn of

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