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The Common Wind of the African Diaspora

July 5, 2019July 5, 2019 Kevin Dawson academia, academic publishing, African Diaspora, black intellectual history, Caribbean, Cuba, Haiti, race, Resistance, slavery

Julius Scott’s The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution is one of the academy’s worst-kept secrets.

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Liberalism, Emancipation, and the Atlantic World

June 27, 2019June 26, 2019 Adriana Chira Activism, African Diaspora, black politics, capitalism, Caribbean, Haiti, nation, race, slavery

George Hackett’s trajectory simmered with the tensions that defined the Age of Emancipations. Hackett was born at the turn of

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Frederick Douglass and a Diplomacy of Blackness

April 23, 2019April 22, 2019 Ronald Angelo Johnson #DouglassForward, Diplomacy, Frederick Douglass, Haiti

*This post is part of the online forum on The Futures of Frederick Douglass. The contributions in this forum each

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Haitian and French Petrol Protests in the Age of Climate Change

January 28, 2019January 29, 2019 Crystal Eddins black protest, Caribbean, France, Haiti

For the past several months, major unrest has occurred almost simultaneously in both Haiti and France over rising gas prices,

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The Radical Tradition of Student Protest

January 15, 2019January 29, 2019 Mike Jirik black radical tradition, Haiti, Haitian Revolution, student activism

On the night of August 20, 2018, student protesters at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill toppled a

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