The Story of an Atlantic Slave War
In a 1935 copper miners’ strike in the British colony of Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia), historian C. L. R. James
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Caribbean
A Family History of British Empire
“Where are you from?”—The deceptively simple question looms over the sprawling narrative of Imperial Intimacies: A Tale of Two Islands,
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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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“Report from the Bahamas”: The Legacies of Colonialism and White Supremacy
*This post is part of our series on Black Ecologies edited by Justin Hosbey, Leah Kaplan, & J.T. Roane. Thirty-eight years
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