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Immigrants in Baltimore: How Warm the Welcome?
(Center for Africana Studies, 2007)
Elizabeth Clifford, “Immigrants in Baltimore: How Warm the Welcome?”
This paper focuses on the contemporary situation of immigrants in Baltimore. Immigrants in Baltimore face
a situation different from those in many other ...
Afro-Mexican History: Trends and Directions in Scholarship
(History Compass, 2005)
This article surveys the development of a relatively new and vibrant subfield in
Latin American History, mapping out the major stages of its evolution and signaling
key intellectual debates. While much of the scholarship ...
Malagasy at the Mascarenes
(Comparative Studies in Society and History, 2007)
European expansion from the fifteenth century produced much writing on, and
sometimes in, non-European languages that served a broad array of imperial
interests. Most European ventures into what one scholar has termed ...
The Problems and Challenges of Research and Writing on Africans and their Descendants in Colonial Cartagena de Indies:A Research Report
(Center for Africana Studies, 2007)
This paper is a work-in-progress summarizing the kinds of documents that can be used to
learn about the history of Africans in colonial Cartagena de Indias. Some of the sources
described here include the work of Alonso ...
African Diasporas and the Atlantic
(The Atlantic in Global History, 1500-2000, edited by Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra and Eric R. Seeman, 129-147. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2007)
As a cursory consultation of any library catalog quickly confirms, the African diaspora
as both concept and field of study is overwhelmingly defined by Atlantic scholarship.
This is paradoxical in two respects. The ...
Flushing Away Sentiment: Water Politics in The Custom of the Country
(Ellipses, 2000)
"We are Seven" and the First British Census
(English Language Notes, 2010)
Charting Racial Formations in the New U.S. South: Reflections on North Carolina’s Latino, African-American, and Afro-Latino Relations
(2008-09-11)
The term “New South” has been used for over a hundred years to describe and categorize the Southern U.S. The desire to continually reinvent the South suggests that the current transformations of the region’s economy, ...
Atlantic Bridge, Atlantic Divide: Africans and Afro-Brazilians in Portuguese America
(Center for Africana Studies, 2007)
This essay focuses on an aspect of persons of African birth and descent in colonial Brazil
to which not sufficient attention has been paid by scholars. To the many factors--
ethnicity, language, belief systems slavery, ...
The Deliverance of Henry 'Box' Brown
(Center for Africana Studies, 2008)
While The Narrative of Henry “Box” Brown has enjoyed a renewed interest in African American studies, few scholars have focused on the particular method of Brown’s escape from slavery to freedom—his overnight shipment by ...