African Diaspora

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/2/2023
  

  Ben Vinson III, Historian of the African Diaspora in Latin America in as Howard U. President

  Vinson, who attended high school in Washington D.C. and was a dean at the George Washington University, returns to the District with goals of vaulting the university into the top ranks of research institutions. 

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• SOURCE: Forward
  2/27/2023
  

  Philosopher Lewis Gordon's Impact on Black Jewish History

  Gordon said for him, “Black consciousness links to all oppression and that’s exactly the kind of Jewishness I was raised in. It was always explained as connected to the ethical, the political dimensions of what it was to be Jewish."

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  6/24/2021
  

  The History Behind the Removal of Argentina’s Version of ‘Aunt Jemima’

  by Erika Denise Edwards

  Cracks are emerging in Argentina's long history of denying the African (and indigenous) roots of some of its citizens, including in commercial culture branding.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  5/31/2021
  

  Time to Challenge Argentina’s White European Self-Image, Black History Experts Say

  A new generation of historians is challenging Argentina's self-understanding as a nation of Europeans and arguing that that mythology helps conceal anti-Black racism in the past and today.

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  2/11/2021
  

  Biographies of Women and Emancipation in the Americas

  by Vanessa M. Holden

  Historian Vanessa Holden reviews a new book edited by Erica L. Ball, Tatiana Seijas and Terri L. Snyder which draws on the stories of women of African descent in the Americas to argue that such women helped bring freedom into being and defined what freedom in the world actually means. 

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  11/30/2020
  

  Online Roundtable: Brandon R. Byrd’s ‘The Black Republic’

  The African American Intellectual History Society will present next week a series of responses to Dr. Brandon Byrd's 2019 book examining the relationship between Black American intellectuals and activists and the Republic of Haiti. 

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• SOURCE: Atlas Obscura
  11/17/2020
  

  How to Recreate Your Lost Family Recipes, According to Historians and Chefs

  Chefs and historians of food cultures are working to build public understanding of the history of immigration and the African diaspora through knowledge of cooking and eating practices.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  10/19/2020
  

  How Saidiya Hartman Retells the History of Black Life

  The literary scholar Saidiya Hartman's studies of the aftermath of slavery and the African diaspora point to the limits of archival records for understanding historical Black experience. Some historians question whether her methods fill archival gaps too creatively.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  9/13/2020
  

  Black Lives Matter But Slavery Isn’t Our Only Narrative

  by Aretha Phiri and Michelle M. Wright

  "Black folks are astonishingly diverse in their cultures, histories, languages, religions, so no single definition of Blackness is going to fit everyone. When we fail to consider this, we effectively leave many Black people out of the conversation."

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  9/9/2020
  

  Black Women in Nineteenth-Century France: An Interview with Historian Robin Mitchell

  Robin Mitchell's book "Vénus Noire: Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century France" examines how sexualized descriptions of Black women contributed to French racism.

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• SOURCE: Columbia Spectator
  2/25/19
  

  How 4 faculty helped create Columbia’s first African American and African Diaspora studies department

  After decades of activism surrounding the University’s lack of dedicated scholarship to issues of race and ethnicity, Columbia approved its first African American and African Diaspora studies department last fall.