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W.E.B. Du Bois, Haiti, and US Imperialism

January 28, 2020January 26, 2020 Crystal Eddins Activism, African Diaspora, black intellectual history, Haiti, Haitian Revolution, imperialism, slavery, Social Movements, W.E.B. Du Bois

This piece follows up on the January 2019 post “Haitian and French Petrol Protests in the Age of Climate Change.”

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1619?

January 14, 2020January 12, 2020 Sasha Turner africa, African Diaspora, archives, Historical Memory, slave trade, slavery

We are living in a “memory boom” he says. From Charleston to New York, the national mall and university halls,

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A Meditation on Natural Light and the Use of Fire in United States Slavery

January 13, 2020January 12, 2020 Tyler Parry black rebellion, environment, Racial Violence, Resistance, slavery, white supremacy

In her September 16, 2019 post for Black Perspectives, “Race and the Paradoxes of the Night,” cultural anthropologist Celeste Henery

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The Black Shoals: A New Book Theorizing Formations of Black and Native Studies

November 22, 2019November 22, 2019 J. T. Roane Black Studies, colonialism, genocide, Indigenous Studies, Racial Violence, settler-colonialism, slavery, white supremacy

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

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Sexual Violence Against Enslaved Men

October 29, 2019October 28, 2019 Kevin C. Quin masculinity, Racial Violence, sexual violence, sexuality, slavery

In Rethinking Rufus: Sexual Violations of Enslaved Men, historian Thomas Foster examines how the conditions of slavery gave rise to

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