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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, ...
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 ...
The Cultural Politics of Paul Robeson and Richard Wright: Theorizing the African Diaspora
(Center for Africana Studies, 2008)
Confronted with the task of defining what it meant to be black in an anti-black world, early cultural critics faced intellectual, existential, and political challenges. This paper focuses on how Paul Robeson and Richard ...
George Lamming the Existentialist
(Center for Africana Studies, 2008)
This essay argues that George Lamming’s In the Castle of My Skin offers important tropes
in black existential thought that are synchronous with Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin, White
Masks, but with a more detailed exploration ...
Africa and Its Diasporas: Remembering South America
(Center for Africana Studies, 2008-08-21)
African interest in the Diaspora has never been greater than it is now. This is evident in the growing attention paid to the subject by African scholars and governments. The motivations are as varied as they are complex. ...