Tag: Black History
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Review: Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World, Jessica Marie Johnson (2020)
Written by Jamie Gemmell. Dr. Jessica Marie Johnson’s 2020 book explores the lives of black women in colonial Louisiana. Beginning in West Africa and moving through colonial rule to the formation of the USA to produce a history of the Atlantic world.
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The Combahee River Collective and Intersectionality in the Age of Identity
Written by Jess Womack. The Combahee River Collective grew out of disillusionments with “mainstream” feminism. Founded in the early 1980s by Black queer women, the Collective developed an “intersectional” approach to political activism.
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The Road to Brown and Little Rock: Beginnings of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States
Written by Jack Bennett. We often pinpoint moments in the Civil Rights Movement which led to massive change, but what came before? A look at events in the 1930s and 40s upon which the Civil Rights Movement was built.
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Review: Slavery at Sea, Sowande’ Mustakeem
Written by Jamie Gemmell. Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage by Sowande’ Mustakeem recounts the diverse experiences of slavery at sea. This is a text that goes to the bloody heart of the Middle Passage.
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From Proposal to Published: Writing Histories of Atlantic Slavery
Retrospect’s Welcome Week interview with Dr. Sowande’ Mustakeem on her 2016 monograph, Slavery at Sea.
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