Video below: "Honoring the history and creativity of an exceptional enslaved potter and poet, David Drake, through performance and poetry." Directed by: Dr. Lynnette Young Overby with Dr. P. Gabrielle Foreman
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ASWAD Statement on the U.S. Election
The Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora issued a statement on the U.S. presidential election: November 28, 2016 Over the past two weeks, in the aftermath of a hotly contested presidential election, a wave of racist and xenophobic attacks has swept across the United States. In elementary and middle schools, young Latino/a … Continue reading ASWAD Statement on the U.S. Election
Amrita Chakrabarti Myers: “…they would have been abolitionists.”
In response to the recent election, #ADPhD is sharing reflections, short takes, and responses from scholars of slavery. To submit yours, click here. On November 18, 2016, in light of the recent election, Amrita Chakrabarti Myers, associate professor of history at Indiana University-Bloomington offered this reminder on Facebook of what standing up against injustice has … Continue reading Amrita Chakrabarti Myers: “…they would have been abolitionists.”
AUDIO: American Exodus: A History of Emigration [rebroadcast] by BackStory
In response to the recent election, #ADPhD is sharing reflections, short takes, and responses from scholars of slavery. To submit yours, click here. On November 11, 2016, in light of the recent election, the BackStory podcast rebroadcast its episode on emigration and immigration, which included stories on free blacks who sailed to Liberia during the … Continue reading AUDIO: American Exodus: A History of Emigration [rebroadcast] by BackStory
Johnson: “Yet Lives and Fights”: Riots, Resistance, and Reconstruction | @AAIHS
In response to the recent election, #ADPhD is sharing reflections, short takes, and responses from scholars of slavery. To submit yours, click here. On November 12, 2016, in light of the recent election, Jessica Marie Johnson published this essay on the African American Intellectual History Society blog: "....The Mechanics’ Institute (or Mechanics Hall) Massacre, considered … Continue reading Johnson: “Yet Lives and Fights”: Riots, Resistance, and Reconstruction | @AAIHS
Petrella on Slavery, Democracy, and the Racialized Roots of the Electoral College | @AAIHS
In response to the recent election, #ADPhD is sharing reflections, short takes, and responses from scholars of slavery. To submit yours, click here. On November 14, 2016, in light of the recent election, the Christopher F. Petrella published this essay on the African American Intellectual History Society blog: Petrella writes: "In a direct election system, … Continue reading Petrella on Slavery, Democracy, and the Racialized Roots of the Electoral College | @AAIHS
Susan Eva O’Donovan: “To stand by silently…makes us look profoundly stupid and cruel and racist too.”
In response to the recent election, #ADPhD is sharing reflections, short takes, and responses from scholars of slavery. To submit yours, click here. On November 14, 2016, news outlets reported that a West Virginian official -- Clay County Development Corporation Director Pamela Ramsey - made the following statement comparing First Lady of the United States … Continue reading Susan Eva O’Donovan: “To stand by silently…makes us look profoundly stupid and cruel and racist too.”
Alex Gil: “This double voice that could pass the censors was key to their survival.”
As the journal steamed on, Aimé Césaire was secretly working on a brutally direct historical drama with the title “Et les chiens se taisaient” (And the Dogs Were Silent). The plot of the drama revolved around the events of the Haitian Revolution (see post below). The manuscript could’ve cost him his livelihood—if not his life—had it been found by the fascists. But fascism is only half of the story. After the war, 1946, after fascism had been replaced with liberal colonialism, the line “Kill the Whites,” refrained 70+ times in the original, was reduced to one appearance in the PG-13 oratorio published in Paris for a bruised audience. As with most famous attempts at presenting black armies decimating white armies, history didn’t find its proper stage.
Patrick Rael: “I’m afraid that we are now all about to receive a terrible lesson in matters the least of us have been weaned on for generations.”
"To those who made the spiteful, foolish choice to vote for a sociopath who does not understand let alone value the rule of law, here is the one irreducible fact that you, your children, their children, and theirs will have to live with: YOU left the center. YOU defected from the compact. YOU flipped the game board and went home. YOU broke it, for all of us. When those who had the most cause to do this did not. If you have cause for anger, how much cause have those with deep and longstanding grievances against this country? I’m sorry if that's ungenerous, but what you have done is the essence of ungenerous." - Patrick Rael
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