A Family History of British Empire
“Where are you from?”—The deceptively simple question looms over the sprawling narrative of Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands,
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Caribbean
The Black Republic: An Author’s Response
The most familiar story about nineteenth-century African Americans and the Haitian Revolution is a romanticized account of how the revolution
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African Americans, Black Internationalism, and the Fate of Haiti
*This post is part of our online roundtable on Brandon R. Byrd’s The Black Republic. From the outside looking in, there
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Haiti and Black Internationalism in the Twenty-First Century
*This post is part of our online roundtable on Brandon R. Byrd’s The Black Republic. African Americans’ tenuous relationship to American
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The Meaning and Significance of Haiti in African American Studies
*This post is part of our online roundtable on Brandon R. Byrd’s The Black Republic. Of the “idea of Haiti,” historian
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