Making Black Los Angeles: A New Book on Class, Gender, and Community
This post is part of a blog series I am editing, which announces the release of selected new works in African
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Free People of Color
Revolving Doors of Fugitivity: Marronage and the Military
In October 1776, the governor of the Brazilian city Salvador da Bahia sent out letters encouraging municipal councils, landowners, captains
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The Mundane and Extraordinary Aspects of Black Women’s History: An Interview with Kali Nicole Gross
This month I interviewed Kali Nicole Gross about her new book, Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso (Oxford University Press, 2016). Dr. Gross is
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Forging Black Identities in Slavery and Freedom: An Interview with Alex Borucki
This month, I interviewed Alex Borucki about his new book, From Shipmates to Soldiers: Emerging Black Identities in the Río
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A Country of Their Own: An American Ex-Slave’s Search for Homeland in Panama
While wandering through the maze of microfilm one afternoon at the Archivo General de la Nación in Bogotá, Colombia, I
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