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Cosmological Queerness Across the Yoruba Diaspora

February 5, 2017April 2, 2018 James Padilioni Jr Afro-Brazilians, Black Queers, Brazil, religion, slave trade, slavery

The constellating topics of homosexuality and masculinity are perennial to Black American discourses. In contemporary debates, the chorus shouting loudest

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“Class Struggle Pan-Africanism”: C.L.R. James in Imperial Britain

January 29, 2017February 28, 2017 Paul Hébert Blacks in Britain, C.L.R. James, Marxism, Pan-Africanism

In her contribution to the 1992 edited volume C.L.R. James’s Caribbean, the Jamaican literary scholar Sylvia Wynter coined the term

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“Mothers of Pan-Africanism”: An Interview with Ashley Farmer

December 17, 2016September 2, 2017 Azmar Williams #WomenandPanAfricanismSeries, Audley Moore, Pan-Africanism

In today’s post, Azmar K. Williams, an editorial assistant of AAIHS, interviews Ashley D. Farmer about her recent article in

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Decolonizing the Republic: A New Book on African and Caribbean Migrants in Postwar Paris

November 3, 2016January 1, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi France, Immigration, Migration, Paris

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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Reflections on Race, Diaspora, and Nation

October 29, 2016October 28, 2016 Tshombe Miles Afro-Brazilians, blackness, Brazil

“People of African descent, wherever they reside, should always be mindful that national struggles can never be disentangled from diasporic

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