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... the recently won liberation. Cuba, feeling the responsibility of a country largely built on African slave labor, saw sending troops to Angola as a way of repaying that tragic history. More than one thousand Cuban soldiers died in Angola. Cuba was essential to that country’s liberation; even Nelson Mandela said...

... Describes the wealthy black woman who lived next door to Mennonite House, and her complicated belief system—she supported integration and civil rights activism, but came from a family that owned slaves themselves, and seemed proud of this as well. Mennonite House wealthy African Americans...

... time, the African sign shifted meanings, from fundamental difference, to a being-apart, to the possibility of assimilation. Yet Pan-Africanism, Negritude, and anticolonial movements as well as anthropology and geography, the latter of which increasingly equated Blackness with Africanness, insisted...

... whether the indigenous litigants would become free vassals of the Spanish Crown. Identification was a subjective art that depended upon the cultural experiences of witnesses and on their motives, as well as the presence of other slaves, including Brazilians, West Africans, and South and East Asians living...

... Burch’s film The Forgotten Space . The chapter then moves to reading: the murders of those Africans held on the slave ship Zong alongside M. NourbeSe Philip’s Zong! ; a photograph of a Haitian girl child awaiting medical attention after the earthquake in Haiti in 2010; the ongoing disasters...

... The introduction outlines seven themes that are treated in the book. One important theme is that the social categories that constitute the “intractable poor” (convicts, slaves, free Africans, Indians in government-organized villages, and enlisted soldiers and sailors) are interconnected...

... In this chapter, Charles I. Nero examines Paul Outlaw’s Berserker . He reflects on Outlaw’s choice to juxtapose Nat Turner, a slave rebel who murdered whites in order to escape chattel slavery, with Jeffrey Dahmer, a person who murdered African American and Asian-descended men for sport. He...

... fiction and foundational category that is race. First, from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century, the Atlantic slave trade transformed Africans on the basis of skin color into human-commodities and human-money. Second, the eighteenth to twentieth centuries witnessed emerging consciousness among...