Oualdi explores the life and afterlife of one figure, the manumitted slave and Tunisian dignitary Husayn Ibn ‘Abdallah...

Konadu tells the story Kofi Donko (1913-1995) and the many communities he served as a blacksmith, healer, farmer, leader and intellectual...

Heffernan offers a thoroughly researched account of the Black Consciousness Movement, student activism, and politics in South Africa from the 1960s to the present...

How involved with slavery were American universities? And what does their involvement mean for us?

Dua describes a tale that is not often told: how piracy works in the everyday lives of those involved in its grip...

According to Cook, a paradox paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick...

Jones problematizes long-held beliefs among literary critics and linguists that habla de negros as represented in dominant Spanish literature was exclusively racist stereotypes...

Lee recovers the forgotten experiences of multiracial peoples in the British colonies of Nyasaland, Southern and Northern Rhodesia...

An interview with Adeyemi Balogun

Who built Africa’s cities?

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Dockworker Power is a refreshing mixture of two methodological approaches that situates the study of black internationalism among workers...

Michel examines the complicated relationship between the United States and Rhodesia...

Lewis documents the forging of Garvey’s remarkable vision of pan-Africanism and highlights his organizational skills in framing a response to the radical global popular upsurge following the First World War (1914–1918)...

In 2015, University of Toronto professor Julie MacArthur decided to follow a couple more leads in the search for the long-missing, feared-lost transcript of the trial of legendary Mau Mau leader Dedan KImathi...

Jacobs makes a potent argument about the role of the media, in its many new and old forms, as an arbiter of belonging and citizenship in our information-saturated age...

Strongman reveals the many non-heteronormative texts, practices and beliefs though which Black Atlantic religious practices in Haiti, Cuba and Brazil were constituted...

If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change...

Besteman writes about her ethnographic encounter in the 1980s with Somalis from the village of Banta who she then re-encounters in 2006 in the town of Lewiston,..

Pearson recounts France’s collision with the UN and World Health Organization in the immediate post-World War II years...

Rever and her sources tell a story far different from the one most people who are familiar with the Rwandan Genocide would recognize...

Italy's current crisis of Mediterranean migration and detention has its roots in early twentieth century imperial ambitions...

Glaes examines the experiences and agency of African immigrants in France from 1960 through the 1970s.,,

"Life" published two photo-essays highlighting Bourke-White’s photographs, but much of her South African work remained unpublished until now...

Focusing in on the Portuguese colonies in Brazil and Angola and on the imperial capital of Lisbon, Breen deftly explores the process by which novel drugs were located, commodified, and consumed...