Migrating the Black Body explores how visual media―from painting to photography, from global independent cinema to Holly
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Examines the use of Africa as a figure in the Harlem Renaissance and looks at the place of that movement within a wider
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From early photographs of disfigured slaves to contemporary representations of bullet-riddled rappers, images of wounded
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A theoretical troubling of the assumptions of uniformity in Blackness, comparing writings by and about African diasporic
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Kevin Dawson considers how enslaved Africans carried aquatic skills—swimming, diving, boat making, even surfing—to the A
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s Tradition and the Black Atlantic is both a vibrant romp down the rabbit hole of cultural studie
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The British role in the shaping of the African diaspora was central: the British carried more Africans across the Atlant
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The rise of cinema as the predominant American entertainment around the turn of the last century coincided with the migr
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In the American world, the presence of African culture is sometimes fully embodied and sometimes leaves only a trace. Af
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Banning Black Gods is a global examination of the legal challenges faced by adherents of the most widely practiced Afric
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The presence of Blacks in a number of European societies has drawn increasing interest from scholars, policymakers, and
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