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BLACK HISTORY
Hawai'i Is My Haven: Race and Indigeneity in the Black Pacific
Hawaiʻi Is My Haven maps the context and contours of Black life in the Hawaiian Islands. This ethnography emerges from a decade of fieldwork with …
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POLITICS
Free Radical Ernest Chambers, Black Power, and the Politics of Race
Amid the deadly racial violence of the 1960s, an unassuming student from a fundamentalist Christian home in Omaha emerged as a leader and nationall…
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CANADIAN HISTORY
Fear of a Black Nation Race, Sex, and Security in Sixties Montreal
In the 1960s, for at least a brief moment, Montreal became what seemed an unlikely centre of Black Power and the Caribbean left. In October 1968 th…
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NATIVE AMERICANS
Chocolate and Corn Flour: History, Race, and Place in the Making of “Black” Mexico
Located on Mexico's Pacific coast in a historically black part of the Costa Chica region, the town of San Nicolás has been identified as a cen…
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EUROPEAN HISTORY
Britain's Black Population: A New Perspective
For over 1500 years before the Empire Windrush docked on British shores, people of African descent have played a significant and far-ranging role i…
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RACISM
Black Metaphors: How Modern Racism Emerged from Medieval Race-Thinking
In the late Middle Ages, Christian conversion could wash a black person's skin white—or at least that is what happens when a black sultan con…
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WHITE SUPREMACY
Black Autonomy: Race, Gender, and Afro-Nicaraguan Activism
Decades after the first multicultural reforms were introduced in Latin America, Afrodescendant people from the region are still disproportionatel…
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