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Slavery, Capitalism, and Empire: A CBFS Interview

April 6, 2022April 5, 2022 Erik Wallenberg black lives matter, capitalism, CBFS, empire, Puerto Rico, slavery, South Carolina, World War II

Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Curated

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‘Rhodes Must Fall’ and Decolonizing Education

October 1, 2019September 22, 2019 Nicholas Grant Activism, African Diaspora, Anticolonialism, Black Europe, black protest, decolonization, education, empire, race, reparations

Writing in 2006, the historian Manning Marable asserted that, “The Black public intellectual must actively engage the past in such

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This Vast Southern Empire: A New Book on Slaveholders and U.S. Foreign Policy

September 12, 2016January 1, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi Deep South, empire, slavery

This post is part of a new and recurring blog series I am editing, which announces the release of selected new

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Race and Radicalism in Puerto Rico: An Interview with Carlos Alamo-Pastrana

August 2, 2016August 2, 2016 Devyn Spence Benson Black radicalism, empire, Puerto Rican history, Puerto Rico

This month I interviewed Dr. Carlos Alamo-Pastrana about his new book, Seams of Empire: Race and Radicalism in Puerto Rico

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Thinking About the ‘X’

December 12, 2015December 14, 2015 Jessica Marie Johnson Afrxlatinidad, Caribbean, colonial America, empire, Latin America, slave trade, slavery

As the year winds down, I find myself, like my AAIHS colleague Noelle Trent, reflecting on 2015, on conversations that

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