Finally! Julius Scott, A Common Wind: Afro-American Organization in the Revolution Against Slavery (Verso, 2018). via Verso: "Out of the grey expanse of official records in Spanish, English and French, The Common Wind provides a gripping and colourful account of inter-continental communication networks that tied together the free and enslaved masses of the new world. … Continue reading BOOK: Scott on the Common Wind of Black Radicalism During Slavery
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BOOK: Blackett on Fugitive Slaves and the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law
R. J. M. Blackett, The Captive’s Quest for Freedom: Fugitive Slaves, the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, and the Politics of Slavery (Cambridge ; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2018). via Cambridge: "This magisterial study, ten years in the making by one of the field's most distinguished historians, will be the first to explore the impact fugitive … Continue reading BOOK: Blackett on Fugitive Slaves and the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law
EDITED: Germain and Larcher on Black French Women and the Struggle for Equality
Félix Germain and Silyane Larcher, eds. Black French Women and the Struggle for Equality, 1848-2016 (University of Nebraska Press, 2018) via UNP: "Black French Women and the Struggle for Equality, 1848–2016 explores how black women in France itself, the French Caribbean, Gorée, Dakar, Rufisque, and Saint-Louis experienced and reacted to French colonialism and how gendered … Continue reading EDITED: Germain and Larcher on Black French Women and the Struggle for Equality
BLOGROLL: Mitchell on Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Koritha Mitchell on Frances Ellen Watkins Harper: "Harper’s public career was most active from the 1850s to the 1890s, an impressive 50 years. She was at the forefront of movements for abolition, public education, temperance, and voting rights. And she did this work through leadership positions within black women’s organizations, such as the National Association … Continue reading BLOGROLL: Mitchell on Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
CFP: Slavery in the Machine (@sxarchipelagos, Guest Editor: @jmjafrx)
Jessica Marie Johnson writes: If you haven't submitted your abstract for Slavery in the Machine, a special section of sx archipelagos, there is still time! Submit today. sx archipelagos is now accepting submissions for our upcoming special section "Slavery in the Machine," guest edited by Jessica Marie Johnson. This special section aims to highlight scholarship … Continue reading CFP: Slavery in the Machine (@sxarchipelagos, Guest Editor: @jmjafrx)
BLOGROLL: Gumbs on ‘Keep Your Sorry’: On Slavery, Marriage and the Possibility of Love – @TheFeministWire
From 2011, Gumbs writes: "Obviously, to suggest that a child born into slavery, who can be sold away at any time and whose parents can also be sold, has more stability and richer family ties than a child who may, for example, be raised in a mother-ful household or by unmarried teams of parents reveals … Continue reading BLOGROLL: Gumbs on ‘Keep Your Sorry’: On Slavery, Marriage and the Possibility of Love – @TheFeministWire
BLOGROLL: Johnson on Slavery, History, Afrxlatinidad, and Solidarity in Trumplandia | @BitchMedia
Johnson writes: "It would take a spectacle of Black death—including massacres such as the 1866 Mechanic’s Hall riot in New Orleans, where local police opened fire on Republicans of both races, or the Memphis Race Riot that same year, which left some 40 to 50 Black residents dead—to push congress to implement a decisive Reconstruction … Continue reading BLOGROLL: Johnson on Slavery, History, Afrxlatinidad, and Solidarity in Trumplandia | @BitchMedia
ARTICLES: JAAH SYMPOSIUM ON GERALD HORNE
A special symposium in the Journal of African American History featured the work of Gerald Horne, historian of African American and African diaspora history: Ula Taylor, “INTRODUCTION: THE SHAPING OF AN ACTIVIST AND SCHOLAR.” The Journal of African American History 96, no. 2 (2011): 204–14. doi:10.5323/jafriamerhist.96.2.0204. Ula Taylor, “COMBING THE ARCHIVE, TRACING THE DIASPORA: THE … Continue reading ARTICLES: JAAH SYMPOSIUM ON GERALD HORNE
Happy May Day 2017 from #ADPhD
May 1. March, protest, strike. Black labor matters. https://www.instagram.com/p/BTjBHQlBxpE/?taken-by=afrxdiasporaphd https://www.instagram.com/p/BTjBoA5hSxI/?taken-by=afrxdiasporaphd https://www.instagram.com/p/BTjB5yLBkGK/?taken-by=afrxdiasporaphd https://www.instagram.com/p/BTjCPGCBWJd/?taken-by=afrxdiasporaphd https://www.instagram.com/p/BTjCUHshxOO/?taken-by=afrxdiasporaphd
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
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