Kia L. Caldwell, Wendi Muse, Tianna S. Paschel, Keisha-Khan Y. Perry, Christen A. Smith, and Erica L. Williams publish collective statement on the assassination of Marielle Franco: "The egregiousness of the targeted assassination of an elected official has mobilized people throughout Brazil and around the world. We must maintain this momentum if we want ensure … Continue reading On the Imperative of Transnational Solidarity: A U.S. Black Feminist Statement on the Assassination of Marielle Franco – The Black Scholar
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DIGITAL: Lander’s ESSSS Project Featured in NEH Humanities
The Ecclesiastical and Secular Sources for Slave Societies (ESSSS) project, led by Jane Landers, featured in NEH Humanities: "Until recently, the names and lives of individuals like Ana, Bartolome Joseph, and Francisco—and millions of others who toiled on the sugar plantations of colonial Cuba or in the mines of eighteenth-century Brazil—were thought to have vanished. … Continue reading DIGITAL: Lander’s ESSSS Project Featured in NEH Humanities
Support Palabras for PR #PuertoRico
Jessica Marie Johnson writes: I am helping to host an online fundraiser via YouCaring for Festival de la Palabra, located in Loíza, Puerto Rico. Please help us reach our $5,000 goal: http://youcaring.com/PalabrasPR The mission of Festival de la Palabra is to internationalize Puerto Rican literature through the promotion of reading and creative writing in Puerto Rico … Continue reading Support Palabras for PR #PuertoRico
ARTICLE: Barragan on Female Slaveholders in Colombia
Yesenia Barragan, “Gendering Mastery: Female Slaveholders in the Colombian Pacific Lowlands.” Slavery & Abolition (July 24, 2017): 1–26. Abstract: "This article examines the lives and power exercised by female slaveholders in the frontier lowlands of the Pacific coast of Colombia during the first half of the nineteenth century. Utilizing records from the Independence era to … Continue reading ARTICLE: Barragan on Female Slaveholders in Colombia
NEWS: International Slavery Museum marks ten years with stories of Ink and Blood
New exhibit on slavery in Argentina, Cuba, Jamaica, the United States and Bahrain opens: "The young Jamaican African boy peering out from a nineteenth century photograph found by the curator of a timely new exhibition at the International Slavery Museum may be unknown and slowly vanishing into the paper, but says Jean-Francois Manicom, “he is … Continue reading NEWS: International Slavery Museum marks ten years with stories of Ink and Blood
BOOK: Schmidt-Nowara on Slavery and Freedom in Latin America
Christopher Schmidt-Nowara, Slavery, Freedom, and Abolition in Latin America and the Atlantic World. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2011. via UNM Press: The last New World countries to abolish slavery were Cuba and Brazil, more than twenty years after slave emancipation in the United States. Why slavery was so resilient and how people in … Continue reading BOOK: Schmidt-Nowara on Slavery and Freedom in Latin America
BOOK: Borucki on Shipmates, Soldiers and Black Identity in the Río de la Plata
Alex Borucki, From Shipmates to Soldiers: Emerging Black Identities in the Río de La Plata. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2015. via University of New Mexico Press: "Although it never had a plantation-based economy, the Río de la Plata region, comprising present-day Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay, has a long but neglected history of … Continue reading BOOK: Borucki on Shipmates, Soldiers and Black Identity in the Río de la Plata
BOOK: Nwankwo on Black Cosmopolitanism in the 19th Century
In Black Cosmopolitanism, Nwankwo contends that whites' fears of the Haitian Revolution and its potentially contagious nature virtually forced people of African descent throughout the Americas who were in the public eye to articulate their stance toward the event....
EDITED: Bryant, O’Toole, and Vinson on Africans to Spanish America
Sherwin K. Bryant, Rachel Sarah O’Toole, and Ben Vinson, eds. Africans to Spanish America: Expanding the Diaspora. University of Illinois Press, 2014. via University of Illinois Press: Africans to Spanish America expands the Diaspora framework that has shaped much of the recent scholarship on Africans in the Americas to include Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, and Cuba, … Continue reading EDITED: Bryant, O’Toole, and Vinson on Africans to Spanish America
Childs on Doing African Diaspora History as a Latin Americanist
In "Between Latin America and the African Diaspora?" Greg Childs discusses researching Latin America's black history and the conflicts that can arise: Perhaps because I was indeed sitting right beside him the man did not see me. Or maybe he saw me but genuinely had no clue what kind of work I did or what … Continue reading Childs on Doing African Diaspora History as a Latin Americanist
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