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Recife, Brazil - February 8th, 2018: Portrait of a female dancer carnival parade. The comparsas and dancers parades from Av Rio Branco to the stage at the waterfront. (Shutterstock-Ruben M. Ramos)

The Life and Legacy of Thereza Santos

October 13, 2023October 8, 2023 C. Darius Gordon #raceandlatinamerica, africa, Afro-Brazilians, black feminism, Brazil, Latin America

This post is part of our forum on “Race and Latin America.” Born Jaci dos Santos on July 7, 1938,

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Reassessing African-European Encounters

April 20, 2023April 19, 2023 Nancy A. Andoh africa, African Diaspora, Afro-European Encounter, Black Atlantic, Black Europe, Political Thought, slavery

Herman L. Bennett’s African Kings and Black Slaves: Sovereignty and Dispossession in the Early Modern Atlantic, is a prelude to an

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Kinship and Intimacy in Black Women’s Atlantic World

January 26, 2023January 23, 2023 Chinaza Ruth Okonkwo africa, book review, Kinship, slavery, Wicked Flesh, Women

Even as more scholars of color engage with the livelihoods of those not rich, white, or male, the way Black

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Black Genealogy After Alex Haley’s Roots

June 17, 2022June 16, 2022 Menika Dirkson africa, Alex Haley, Genealogy, Roots, television, West Africa

“A lot has been stolen from Black Americans. A lot has been hidden from Black Americans. And so there is

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Flyboy Meets Guerrilla Scholar

December 16, 2021December 15, 2021 Herb Boyd africa, Greg Tate, music, Robert Farris Thompson, Scholar

Mulling over how to deal with the passing of Robert Farris Thompson, the famed “guerilla scholar,” as he termed himself—he

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