A Black Brazilian Immigrant and the Struggle Civil Rights in the U.S.
Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth and Sarah Parker Remond are usually the
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African Diaspora
Women and Emancipation: An Interview with Erica Ball, Tatiana Seijas, and Terri Snyder
In today’s post, senior editor Tyler D. Parry interviews Erica L. Ball, Tatiana Seijas, and Terri L. Snyder on their
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Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century France
Robin Mitchell’s preface to Vénus Noire: Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century France is extremely moving. She begins with
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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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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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