We are excited to announce the publication of sx:archipelagos, issue #3, Slavery in the Machine. Figure 3. *Vèvè of Papa Legba* We are excited to announce the publication of sx:archipelagos, issue #3, Slavery in the Machine. Guest edited by me and edited by Kaiama Glover and Alex Gil, this is a labor of love and … Continue reading EDITED: Slavery in the Machine, special issue of #sxarchipelagos
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Ira Berlin (1941-2018)
Ira Berlin's work focuses on American history, particularly the history of slavery in the 18th and 19th centuries. Published in 1974 his first book, “Slaves Without Masters: The Negro in the Antebellum South,” won the National Historical Society's Best First Book Prize. His most recent book published this year, “The Long Emancipation: The Demise of … Continue reading Ira Berlin (1941-2018)
ART: Diop’s Project Diaspora
Omar Viktor Diop's Project Diaspora (curatorial Statement by Raquel Wilson): "Starting his research during a four month residency in Màlaga, Spain, where he was immersed in the reality of being a stranger, Diop has focused this first installment on Europe during the 15th through 19th centuries. "Inspired by the many baroque artworks created during this … Continue reading ART: Diop’s Project Diaspora
BLOGROLL: Hunter on The Long History of Child-Snatching in the United States
Tera Hunter writes: "Most Americans are shocked by the increasingly frequent scenes of wailing mothers and babies being torn apart by government officers at the Mexican border. The Trump administration has ratcheted up the separation of children from parents as a way to deter migrants from Central America. "Some critics denounce this practice as “un-American.” … Continue reading BLOGROLL: Hunter on The Long History of Child-Snatching in the United States
BLOGROLL: Dize on Locating Enslaved Black Wet Nurses in Francophone Literature
Nathan Dize writes: "In George Sand’s 1832 idealist novel, Indiana, the eponymous protagonist is raised alongside her sœur de lait or “milk sister” Noun in the French Indian Ocean colony of Île Bourbon (present day Réunion). A “milk sister” was the daughter of the often enslaved wet nurse, and under French slave laws, children of … Continue reading BLOGROLL: Dize on Locating Enslaved Black Wet Nurses in Francophone Literature
All Smiles #TakeEmDownNola
Evergreen 📸 by Matthew Hinton: https://twitter.com/matthintonphoto/status/865710973306458116 "Malcolm Suber of Take 'Em Down NOLA reacts as Robert E. Lee Statue comes down in New Orleans @theadvocateno @wwltv." Posted on Twitter
DIGITAL: Block on Topic Modeling in Common-place (from 2006)
Sharon Block, “Doing More with Digitization: An Introduction to Topic Modeling of Early American Sources,” Common-Place 06, no. 02 (January 2006), http://www.common-place-archives.org/vol-06/no-02/tales/. "In the 1990s, for a research project on colonial sexual coercion, I read hundreds of microfilmed early American newspapers for references to rape trials. Partway through my research, Accessible Archives released CD-ROMs of … Continue reading DIGITAL: Block on Topic Modeling in Common-place (from 2006)
Lose Your Mother: 1884 & 2018
https://twitter.com/InfoWantedOrg/status/1002228682109390849 Tweet sent by @InfoWantedOrg on May 31, 2018
BOOK: Mitchell on Vénus Noire, Race and Sex in 19th Century France
Robin Mitchell, Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century France (Athens; University of Georgia Press, 2018) Via UGA Press: "Even though there were relatively few people of color in postrevolutionary France, images of and discussions about black women in particular appeared repeatedly in a variety of French cultural sectors and social milieus. In Vénus Noire, … Continue reading BOOK: Mitchell on Vénus Noire, Race and Sex in 19th Century France
EDITED: Rogers and Lesueur on Manumission and Slavery in Europe and the Americas
New edited volume by Dominique Rogers and Boris Lesueur, via Karthala: "L’affranchissement individuel au sein d’une société à esclaves ou esclavagiste informe sur des situations singulières ou exceptionnelles. Dans une perspective comparatiste, cet ouvrage examine les parcours originaux de ces affranchis entre le XIVe siècle et le début du XIXe siècle, et dans un vaste … Continue reading EDITED: Rogers and Lesueur on Manumission and Slavery in Europe and the Americas
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