Dismantling Whiteness as the Beauty Standard
Miss Jamaica Davina Bennett rejected Eurocentric beauty ideals when she sported her afro at this year’s Miss Universe Pageant. Bennett had
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Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom
This is an excerpt from Keisha N. Blain’s Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle
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The Connections Between Urban Development and Colonialism
This post is part of our online forum on Race, Property, and Economic History. “It’s kind of manifest destiny…now the marketplace and the city has
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Black Power Meets Pan-Africanism in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Historian Seth Markle has written the latest must-have book on Black Power politics. His book is “required reading” because he
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Writing Antiracism in Cuba: An Author’s Response
This post is part of our online roundtable on Devyn Spence Benson’s Antiracism in Cuba. I still remember the first paper I wrote
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