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January 14, 2020January 12, 2020 Sasha Turner africa, African Diaspora, archives, Historical Memory, slave trade, slavery

We are living in a “memory boom” he says. From Charleston to New York, the national mall and university halls,

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Worldmaking after Empire: An Author’s Response

November 29, 2019November 24, 2019 Adom Getachew #AAIHSRoundtable, #WorldmakingafterEmpire, africa, African Diaspora, Anticolonialism, black internationalism, Caribbean, colonialism, decolonization

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Adom Getachew’s Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination I want to thank

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Gender, Blackness, and the Oppression Olympics

November 13, 2019November 11, 2019 Jesús Gregorio Smith #WorkingtheBlackDiaspora, africa, African Diaspora, education, Gender, pedagogy, sexuality, teaching

*This post is part of our online forum organized by Drs. Charisse Burden-Stelly and Crystal Moten titled “Researching, Teaching, and Embodying

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Mickey Leland and Africa in American Politics: An Interview with Benjamin Talton

September 30, 2019September 30, 2019 Keisha N. Blain Activism, africa, African Diaspora, black intellectual history, black internationalism, Black political thought, black politics, black radical tradition, Black radicalism, Pan-Africanism, Politics, race

In today’s post, AAIHS President Keisha N. Blain interviews Benjamin Talton, an associate professor of History at Temple University, about his

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Race and the Politics of Knowledge Production in African Studies

April 8, 2019August 12, 2022 Marius Kothor africa, African Diaspora, black intellectual history, black politics, Black Studies, education, Pan-Africanism, race, racism, white supremacy

In the United States, African scholars are conspicuously underrepresented in the field of African Studies. For years, Black scholars have

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