... Working with treaties, letters, government documents, maps, memoirs, and fugitive slave advertisements as primary source data, chapter 2 examines arbitration hearings that took place at Fraunces Tavern in New York City between fugitive slaves who sought to be included in the Book of Negroes...

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... The introduction lays out the main arguments and interventions of the book, most notably the “Diasporic Midwest,” a framework to extend the study of the African Diaspora by tracing the significance of the US heartland to shaping twentieth-century global Black history through Garveyism. The book...

... Terrorist list do not have it? And what can this tell us about race more broadly in the twenty-first century, coming off the complex contestations around race in the previous few decades? The book’s argument that we must take seriously the defects of race as a mode of organization and analytical category...

... The introduction sketches the basic ethnographic context, analytical arguments, and narrative layout of the book’s exploration of Cuban hip hop vis-à-vis race and neoliberal transformation in late revolutionary Cuba. Centrally outlined is the book’s discussion of the emergent identity politics...

... A brief postscript revisits the book’s main arguments and contributions, and offers a closing vignette involving Cuban raperos in New Orleans. Cuban raperos New Orleans ...