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“Too Big To Be Small”: The Life and Legacy of Eric Williams

September 25, 2020September 24, 2020 Erica Williams-Connell #CapitalismandSlavery, African Diaspora, black internationalism, Black political thought, black protest, capitalism, Caribbean, colonialism, education

*This essay is part of our online forum on Eric Williams’ Capitalism and Slavery (1944), organized by historian Sasha Turner. The forum is in

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Enslaved African Americans hoe and plow the earth and cut piles of sweet potatoes on a South Carolina plantation, circa 1862-3 (Image courtesy of Library of Congress)

Eric Williams’ ‘Capitalism and Slavery’: A Blueprint for Reparations

September 22, 2020September 13, 2020 Verene A. Shepherd #CapitalismandSlavery, Anticolonialism, Caribbean, reparations

*This essay is part of our online forum on Eric Williams’ Capitalism and Slavery (1944), organized by historian Sasha Turner.

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W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life in American History

September 3, 2020August 28, 2020 Edward Carson African Diaspora, black radical tradition, Black radicalism

In 2018, scholars celebrated the 150th anniversary of the birth of W.E.B. Du Bois via published essays, symposiums, and commemorative

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Surveillance, State Power, and the Activism of Shirley Graham Du Bois

September 1, 2020September 1, 2020 Denise Lynn Activism, black internationalism, Canada, Communism, W.E.B. Du Bois

The recent Black Lives Matter protests against police brutality are a reminder that social justice advocacy and activism can come

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Contagions of Empire: A New Book on Racism, Sexuality, and Black Military Workers

September 1, 2020August 28, 2020 Tyler Parry black internationalism, labor, military

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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