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Film Review: Summer Of Soul (…Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised), Cameron Smith
Film Review: Summer Of Soul (…Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised), Cameron Smith
History in the Making
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Film Review: Passing, Cecelia Smith
Book Review: Boyle Heights: How A Los Angeles Neighborhood Became The Future Of American Democracy, Jose Castro
Book Review: Boyle Heights: How A Los Angeles Neighborhood Became The Future Of American Democracy, Jose Castro
History in the Making
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Book Review: Reckoning With Slavery: Gender, Kinship, And Capitalism In The Early Black Atlantic, Brittany Mondragon
Book Review: Reckoning With Slavery: Gender, Kinship, And Capitalism In The Early Black Atlantic, Brittany Mondragon
History in the Making
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Bell Hooks (1952–2021), Cecelia Smith
Uprooted: Doorway Gardens And African Plant Cultivation In The Colonial Atlantic World, Brittany Mondragon
Uprooted: Doorway Gardens And African Plant Cultivation In The Colonial Atlantic World, Brittany Mondragon
History in the Making
Approximately twelve million enslaved African people were uprooted from their homes and sent to the New World to work as free forced labor on plantation fields. Meanwhile, African plants also made their own triangular voyage across the Atlantic as slave ship captains gathered provisions for the seafaring journey or Africans stowed away food as they embarked on an unknown and horrifying journey. While attention on the transatlantic trade nexus often focuses on food and cash crops traveling between Europe and the Americas, several different produce of African origins were transplanted in America and often found in enslaved people’s provision gardens. …