Reassessing African-European Encounters
Herman L. Bennett’s African Kings and Black Slaves: Sovereignty and Dispossession in the Early Modern Atlantic, is a prelude to an
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Kinship and Intimacy in Black Women’s Atlantic World
Even as more scholars of color engage with the livelihoods of those not rich, white, or male, the way Black
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Race, Religion, and The History Behind ‘Heathen’
Heathen: Religion and Race in American History, by Kathryn Gin Lum, argues that the label of “heathen” denotes a broad
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Tracing the Pan-African Foundations of Transnational Black Feminism
Following her deportation from New York to London, England, Black communist Claudia Jones expanded the scope of her leftist, anti-imperial
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Olaudah Equiano’s Transnational Insights
Few figures of the eighteenth century have captured the attention of historians, literary critics, and scholars of Africana studies as
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