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Reimagining Liberation: A New Book about Black Women who Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire

March 20, 2020March 15, 2020 AAIHS Editors black internationalism, Black women, Caribbean, Pan-Africanism

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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‘Racialization works differently here in Puerto Rico, do not bring your U.S.-centric ideas about race here!’

March 3, 2020March 1, 2020 Hilda Lloréns Activism, African Diaspora, Afro-Latin, Afro-Latinx, Afrxlatinidad, black internationalism, Caribbean, Latin America, Puerto Rican history, Puerto Rico, racism

This title is a variation of a statement I have heard during the last two decades as a professional anthropologist.

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The Black Avenger: ‘The Essential Trope of Atlantic Modernity’

February 6, 2020February 2, 2020 Benjamin Fagan #BlackPanther, African Diaspora, Caribbean, comic books, comics, Haiti, racism, white supremacy

In the years before and since the release and reception of the blockbuster 2018 film, Black Panther, the iconic Marvel

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Living with Crises in Port-au-Prince

December 4, 2019November 30, 2019 Antony Keane-Dawes book review, Caribbean, Haiti, Haitian Revolution, Race and Economic History

Based on a decade’s worth of research in Haiti, the United States, and Canada, There is No More Haiti: Between

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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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