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Radical History Review (2018) 2018 (131): 36–57.
Published: 01 May 2018
... diplomatic reporting, it unearths how a loose group of Lebanese nationalists formulated an anticivilizational critique of France via an ironic dehumanization of West African imperial troops. Through the tensions of empire and the imagined differences they asserted, these Lebanese nationalists tapped...
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in Between Image and Erasure: Photographs of West African Soldiers in India, 1944–1946
> Radical History Review
Published: 01 October 2018
Figure 1. May 15, 1946, RWAFF News . Image of a group of West Africans surveying the Quranic inscriptions on the wall of the Taj Mahal. The tour was organized as part of the South East Asia Command’s series of educational tours for West Africans serving in India.
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in Between Image and Erasure: Photographs of West African Soldiers in India, 1944–1946
> Radical History Review
Published: 01 October 2018
Figure 3. May 15, 1946, RWAFF News . Image of two West Africans engaged in discussion in front of the Taj Mahal.
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Radical History Review (2022) 2022 (144): 19–44.
Published: 01 October 2022
...Elizabeth Ann Fretwell Abstract This article examines the sartorial culture of an African elite as a form of Afropolitanism in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century West African kingdom of Dahomey. Dahomean elites embraced cultural borrowing to layer styles and materials from European and African...
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Radical History Review (2018) 2018 (132): 200–207.
Published: 01 October 2018
...Figure 1. May 15, 1946, RWAFF News . Image of a group of West Africans surveying the Quranic inscriptions on the wall of the Taj Mahal. The tour was organized as part of the South East Asia Command’s series of educational tours for West Africans serving in India. ...
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Radical History Review (2009) 2009 (103): 17–35.
Published: 01 January 2009
...Anne-Marie Angelo A group of West African and West Indian immigrants in London identified themselves as the British Black Power Movement from September 1967 to April 1968 and as the British Black Panther Movement from 1968 to 1972. As the first Black Panther Movement to form independently outside...
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Radical History Review (2024) 2024 (150): 205–210.
Published: 01 October 2024
...Koni Benson; Asher Gamedze; Nashilongweshipwe Mushaandja Abstract Thirty-two editions of The Namibian Review (1976–87) were published by anti-apartheid revolutionaries in a decade of intensifying struggle for independence from the South African occupation of South West Africa. This teaching tool...
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Radical History Review (2009) 2009 (103): 83–104.
Published: 01 January 2009
... for communities of African descent in the United States and the British West Indies at particular moments, and I show that these links became the basis for a culturalist discursive framework applied first to black family formation and more recently to violence. This discursive framework limits our ability...
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Radical History Review (2018) 2018 (131): 58–81.
Published: 01 May 2018
..., this article delineates how notions of the Black world have also been blinded by African Diaspora frameworks calibrated to the Black Atlantic. But by illumining Black internationalism in West Papua, it challenges the conceptual and racial invisibility cast over the Black Pacific. Copyright © 2018 by MARHO...
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Radical History Review (2021) 2021 (140): 165–174.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Jan Huebenthal Abstract In November 1987, Linwood Boyette, an African American man and retired US army sergeant, became one of the first people in West Germany to be jailed for alleged HIV transmission, following charges brought under a legal Maßnahmenkatalog (catalog of measures) in the state...
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Radical History Review (2007) 2007 (99): 121–139.
Published: 01 October 2007
... industry, its proximity to labor-hungry
farms on the other side of the Narragansett, and its dependence on the African slave
trade ensured that Newport witnessed a steady influx of slaves from both the West
Indies and Africa.8 The town had over twelve hundred blacks by the middle of the
eighteenth...
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Radical History Review (2000) 2000 (77): 106–122.
Published: 01 May 2000
... West-
ern scholars to step outside of their familiar ideological and cultural
boxes to better understand African realities. Horton’s primary targets
are those scholars who privilege Western religion and science in their
analyses of African rituals and beliefs, but his theoretical premise has...
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Radical History Review (2003) 2003 (87): 226–236.
Published: 01 October 2003
... riposte to the colonial discourse that has framed
Africa in dominant cultural institutions of the West such as the museum world. Cel-
ebrating the achievements of African liberation movements, The Short Century pro-
poses a radical new framework within which...
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Radical History Review (2008) 2008 (101): 220–222.
Published: 01 May 2008
... 2008 Notes on Contributors
Jean Allman teaches African history at Washington University, where she is the J.H. Hexter
Professor in the Humanities. Her recent books include Fashioning Africa: Power and the
Politics of Dress (2004) and Tongnaab: The History of a West African God...
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Radical History Review (2009) 2009 (103): 7–15.
Published: 01 January 2009
... women of Fumilayo Ramsome-Kuti
(Nigeria, 1950s); and the powerful pan-African acuity of Nnamdi Azikiwe, C. L. R.
James, Aimé Césaire, and other West Indians and Africans organizing in Europe
between the 1930s and the 1950s.4 Because these authors and agitators — and the
hundreds, possibly...
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Radical History Review (1980) 1980 (24): 68–75.
Published: 01 October 1980
..., that Cesaire wrote about this to
make it clear that Black people should not subordinate themselves to
the feeling that they had to aspire to what white civilization had done.
Nhgritude was not of African origin at all. It was West Indian and
could only have come from the West Indies. It was not only...
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Radical History Review (1992) 1992 (53): 5–11.
Published: 01 May 1992
... Columbus's under-
standing of the natives' knowledge and their emotional states, he also
parodies his misunderstandings of the words they use. Columbus calls
canoes, which in this translation are called "dug-outs," by the name of
a West African raft, and even then he employs the Portuguese ap...
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Radical History Review (2022) 2022 (144): 45–75.
Published: 01 October 2022
... . Abolition in Sierra Leone: Re-building Lives and Identities in Nineteenth-Century West Africa . Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press , 2020 . Anderson Richard P. “ The Diaspora of Sierra Leone’s Liberated Africans: Enlistment, Forced Migration, and ‘Liberation’ at Freetown, 1808–1863...
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Radical History Review (2006) 2006 (95): 283–286.
Published: 01 May 2006
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of West Africans in Britain 1900 – 60: Nationalism, Pan-Africanism, and Communism (1998)
and (with Marika Sherwood) The 1945 Manchester Pan-African Congress Revisited (1995) and
Pan-African History: Political Figures from Africa and the Diaspora since 1787 (2003). He has
appeared in several...
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Radical History Review (2000) 2000 (76): 223–231.
Published: 01 January 2000
... on the relationship between gender roles, stereotyping and African
cultures and traditions.
REFLECTING ON THE COURSE AS A WHOLE
Is this an areas studies course after all, perpetuating the notion of South
African ”exceptionalism,” with a quick detour to west Africa? On the
230/RADICAL HISTORY REVIEW...
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