Assimilationism

A Family History of British Empire

February 5, 2021January 30, 2021 Mary Hicks African Diaspora, black feminism, Black women, Caribbean

“Where are you from?”—The deceptively simple question looms over the sprawling narrative of Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands,

The Role of Black Women in the Making of a White Argentine Republic

July 2, 2020June 28, 2020 Christina Proenza Coles African Diaspora, Black women, Latin America, Resistance

“The discovery of personal whiteness among the world’s peoples is a very modern thing,” observed W.E.B. Du Bois, “a nineteenth

Stuart Hall: “Familiar Stranger” of the Black Atlantic

July 6, 2018July 9, 2018 Marlene Gaynair African Diaspora, Black Europe, Blacks in Britain, Caribbean, Jamaica

Stuart Hall’s posthumous memoir, Familiar Stranger: A Life Between Two Islands, is the most recent entry in his eponymous book

The African Diaspora in Europe Today

June 15, 2018June 23, 2018 Stephen Small African Diaspora, Black Europe, Black Europe Series, Black German, Blacks in Britain, Germany, race

*This post is part of our new blog series on Black Europe. This series, edited by Kira Thurman and Anne-Marie Angelo, explores what it means

Civil Rights Playwrights as Black Intellectuals

November 25, 2017November 28, 2017 Julie Burrell civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, Harold Cruse, theater

In the Society for U.S. Intellectual History’s recent roundtable on Harold Cruse’s The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, contributors reaffirmed the significance of

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