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Black Europe Series
*This post is part of our new blog series on Black Europe. This series, edited by Kira Thurman and Anne-Marie Angelo, explores what it means to
Between Europe and the Black Atlantic
Between Europe and the Black Atlantic *This post is part of our new blog series on Black Europe. This series, edited by Kira Thurman and Anne-Marie Angelo, explores what it means to bring the category of Black Europe to the foreground of scholarship on Europe and the Black Atlantic. June 2018 marked the seventieth anniversary of the voyage of the former troopship Empire Windrush, arriving at Essex’s Tilbury Docks with over 1000 passengers, including over 500 Jamaicans.
The Realness of ‘Pose’
The FX series Pose premiered in June 2018 to rave reviews for its historic depiction of the New York City house and ballroom scene of the late 1980s. With five Black and Blatinx transfemme actors holding series regular roles playing trans characters, Pose sets a new record for racial trans visibility on television. More significantly, the characters of Pose are complex and the sincerity of their on-screen relations has struck a chord with many queer Black and brown viewers.
Slavery and America’s Legacy of Family Separation
In early May 2018 news broke that federal officials had lost track of nearly 1,500 children. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that officials would separate undocumented families. Characterizing immigrant parents as smugglers of their own children, Sessions warned that families who wanted to remain together should not attempt to enter the United States. And then came reports that federal officials had “misplaced” roughly 1,500 immigrant children.
Zora Neale Hurston’s ‘Barracoon’ and Africatown’s Sister Settlement
More than ninety years after Zora Neale Hurston first met Cudjo Lewis, her manuscript Barracoon has finally been published. Hurston encountered Lewis—born Oluale Kossola and hereafter called by that name—as a lonely survivor of the Clotilda, the last slave ship to carry African captives into the United States. Hurston knew that Kossola spoke for millions made into “contraband flesh” by the transatlantic slave trade.
Women and the 1956 Congress of Black Writers and Artists in Paris
Women and the 1956 Congress of Black Writers and Artists in Paris *This is the seventh post in our blog series on Women, Gender and Pan-Africanism edited by Keisha N. Blain. Blog posts in this series examine how women and gender have shaped Pan-Africanist movements and discourses of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in the United States, Europe, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean.
Challenging the Boundaries of Women’s History and Beyond
Challenging the Boundaries of Women’s History and Beyond Earlier this year, the Coordinating Council for Women in History issued a statement condemning the all-white male conference held at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. In our statement, we challenged readers to look beyond the conference convener Niall Ferguson’s excuse that the all-white male conference was merely coincidental, the accidental result of packed schedules.
Race and Identity in Medieval Europe
*This post is part of our new blog series on Black Europe. This series, edited by Kira Thurman and Anne-Marie Angelo, explores what it means to bring the category of Black Europe to the foreground of scholarship on Europe and the Black Atlantic. Medieval identities were a complex mixture of proto-nationality, tribe, and religious affiliation.
America’s Enslaved Dead
On Sunday, November 8, 1936, Zora Neale Hurston received the exciting news: there was a zombie at the hospital in Gonaïves! Hurston wasted little time. A week later, she suspended her anthropological research in Port-au-Prince, traveled from the Haitian capital to the northern port city of Gonaïves, handed her letter of introduction to the hospital’s chief of staff, and walked with him into the hospital yard. There the zombie waited.
African American Civil War Soldiers: An Interview with John Clegg
This month, I had the opportunity to speak with John Clegg, founder of African American Civil War Soldiers, a new website that is crowd-sourcing the transcription of the military records of the 200,000+ Black soldiers who fought for the Union Army in the Civil War. Clegg is a PhD candidate at NYU whose research covers structures of race and class in the United States, the roots of mass incarceration, and the political economy of slavery and emancipation in the Atlantic world.
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