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...Sylvester A. Johnson This essay examines Black support for US militarism from the 1890s to the First World War amid devastating forms of institutional racism. As the first African American soldiers were deployed to France to liberate Europe’s White citizens, the US government hanged thirteen Black...

.... This promise has been made to Muslim Americans most recently, but it has a long history: it was also offered to African American soldiers during the Civil War in particular, and also to Native Americans and other minorities over the long history of US warfare. Second, death itself might, tragically and finally...

... of the Republican forces, and, more broadly, by how the Moor and Spain’s historic relations with the Islamic world figured so centrally in a civil war fought ostensibly for domestic reasons. African American soldiers were so appalled by the hatred of Moors...

..., Identity, and Citizenship in Black Africa : The Case of the Lebanese in Ghana .” Journal of the International African Institute 76 , no. 3 ( 2006 ): 297 – 323 . Al-Bulushi Samar . “ Citizen-Suspect: Navigating Surveillance and Policing in Urban Kenya .” American Anthropologist 123...

... governance, and a disruption of the disavowals and deferrals that undergird imperial “Being.” The answer to the question of whether Black lives matter in majority Black societies would seem, to many Americans (and especially to many African Americans), to be a given. Many would assume that because...

... that politicized African- descended peoples the world over. But viewed through the lenses of the accelerating collapse of European empires and the heightened rights-con- sciousness of African, Afro-Caribbean, and African American soldiers (for whom military...

... spread throughout the city of Salvador da Bahia in 1798 were not random or spontaneous. In the latter half of the 1790s, many soldiers and artisans of African descent in Bahia were discontent with racial prejudices that permeated social...

... of the Dead: Circum-­Atlantic Performance ( New York: Columbia University Press, 2006), 2. 38. Andrew Apter, “On African Origins: Creolization and Connaissance in Haitian Vodou,” American Ethnologist 29, no. 2 (2002): 233 – 60...

...Martha Hodes Considering the question of the recovery of marginalized voices in the archives, this article reflects on the problem of finding and interpreting the personal responses of African Americans to the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865. Black freedom was central to the post...

... to be constantly thinking through the legacy not only of apartheid in South Africa but of new forms of “global apartheid,” the “south africanization of social life” (Gilroy 2001) elsewhere in the world, including what Gilroy calls “the institution of American apartheid”—as they relate to technologies of sex...

...,” Journal of Negro History (Winter 1992): 30 – 36; Clarence Lusane, Hitler’s Black Victims: The Historical Experiences of Afro-Germans, European Blacks, Afri- cans, and African Americans in the Nazi Era (New York: Routledge, 2003); Reiner Pommerin, Sterilisierung der Rheinlandbastarde: Das...

... both in and outside the Union. There is also ample evi- dence that enslaved Africans in resisting their abject condition continued to speak their native languages well into the nineteenth century or, in the case of Muslim Africans, knew Arabic, even as Americanized Africans developed a creolized...

... born in the United States today will eventually contract type II diabetes and that this trend will have an asymmetrically devastating impact on Native American, Latino, African American, and Asian Pacific Islander populations.5 Tracing the dominant...

....’” 26 For more on the slave trade as manufacturing slaves, see Mustakeem, Slavery at Sea . See also the African American Intellectual History Society’s forum on Slavery at Sea , including Johnson, “Moral Challenge of the Middle Passage” ; Egerton, “Unearthing the Human Stories” ; Fuentes, “Violent...

... imperial fictions about Native Americans and African Americans, and these representations formed and informed popular discourses about the Filipino colonial subject. 94 Nerissa S. Balce Anne McClintock describes an “erotics...

... it in such close and productive proximity with other forms of cultural practice and identity in which she might claim some legitimate belonging, including especially forms of Latin American, African diasporic, and Caribbean diasporic cultural and musical...

... “is marked by an originary fact: the preservation of slavery and the question of African Americans in general. This colored rupture is also the conceptual rupture of the universality of the concept of free- dom and equality. It is not by chance that any great...

... of authenticité was also part of a diaspora-wide black- consciousness movement. African American funk, soul, and R&B music found its way into Congolese sound. The boxing match in 1974 between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in Kinshasa’s Mai 20 Stadium inspired enthusiasm and calls...

.... Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. 1995. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History. Boston: Beacon Press. Troutman, Phillip. 2004. “Grapevine in the Slave Market: African American Geo- political Literacy and the 1841 Creole Revolt...

..., on folkloric stories of the hyena (which is a pan-African phenomenon) but looks as well at contemporary mass-mediated images of poverty and aid. Similarly, its cinematic strategies and aesthetics uniquely draw from European, American, and African sources. This combination of influences in the film reinforces...