Tag: Racism

Assata Shakur police mugshot, issued in the 1970s by U.S.

Political Opinion

Assata Shakur: Violence in the U.S., Silence on Cuba’s Racism

While celebrated by some as a revolutionary icon, Shakur remained silent on…

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Microhistories of Africa: Statues at the Slave Market Memorial in Stone Town, Zanzibar, commemorating the victims of the transatlantic slave trade. Photo by Son of Groucho (CC BY).

Books Political History

Microhistories and the African Past

Toby Green’s new book, The Heretic of Cacheu is published in the…

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What Racism Really Costs Us All

About the book The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and…

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A Black woman holds a banner listing victims of police violence during a protest in the United States. Her mask features the faces of Black individuals killed by police, including George Floyd.

Books Human Rights

Black Women and the Making of Human Rights

Black women in the United States have not only participated in human…

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Keisha N. Blain

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Abolition : Artwork by Shepard Fairey. A powerful visual of Black resistance and radical truth-telling, challenging the structures of obedience through unapologetic presence and voice.

We Were Never Meant to Obey: Weaving Abolitionist Constellations

An abolitionist reflection on obedience, resistance, and the radical power of authenticity.

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Brittany Friedman

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A street view of Harlem, New York—an urban space that, like many across the Americas, has borne witness to shifting racial and communal boundaries shaped by patterns of absorption, mobility, and exclusion.

What Gets Absorbed? Jews, Race, and Identity Across the Americas

About the book Absorption Narratives: Jewishness, Blackness, and Indigeneity in the Cultural…

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Stephanie Pridgeon

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Books Political History

A New History of Atlantic Slavery from the Global South

About the book: Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery by…

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Ana Lucia Araujo

16 Min Read

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Patchwork Freedoms: How Enslaved People Won Their Rights

Winner of the James A. Rawley Prize in Atlantic History (2023) and…

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The Limits of Data: Race, Representation, and Experimentation

About The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial Data,…

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The Politics of Black Death

About Death’s Futurity, winner of the 2024 Modern Language Association William Sanders…

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Cover of Takkara K. Brunson's Black Women, Citizenship, and the Making of Modern Cuba (University Press of Florida, 2021), about the role Afro-Cuban women played in shaping modern Cuban identity.

How Afro-Cuban Women Shaped Modern Cuba

About Black Women, Citizenship, and the Making of Modern Cuba, winner of…

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On March 7, 1965, 600 Black civil rights protesters led by Hosea Williams (at right front in dark raincoat) and John Lewis (at right in light-colored coat) crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. They were met by state troopers and local police, who gave them a two-minute warning to disperse. When the protesters refused, officers tear-gassed and beat them, resulting in over 50 hospitalizations.

Black ‘Race’ and White Supremacy Saga

About the book Black ‘Race’ and White Supremacy Saga by Kehbuma Langmia,…

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Kehbuma Langmia

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