Category: Black Diaspora
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River Mumma: Fluid Crossings and Mermaid Spirits in Revival Zion Religion
by KHYTIE K. BROWN THIS STORY BEGINS with a Jamaican folk tale about a mermaid spirit who inhabits the rivers, and sometimes the seas, of…
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Selections from the LADI Repository
BY DAVID A. BLISS THE LATIN AMERICAN DIGITAL INITIATIVES (LADI) website holds archival collections from six of the Benson’s post-custodial archival partner organizations in Latin…
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Staff Pick: Black Freedom Struggle and the University
The John L. Warfield Papers BY ZARIA EL-FIL Freedom has long been theorized in university spaces as a matter of intellectual engagement. Historically, Black freedom…
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Faculty Spotlight: Sandro Sessarego
BY SUSANNA SHARPE WE DON’T OFTEN STOP TO THINK about why we speak the way we speak, or how some of our linguistic habits came…
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The Quilombo Activists’ Archive: A Transcontinental Partnership
BY EDWARD SHORE CARLITOS DA SILVA was an activist and community leader from São Pedro, one of 88 settlements founded by descendants of escaped slaves…
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Establishing History: The Black Diaspora Archive and the Texas Domestic Slave Trade Project
BY RACHEL E. WINSTON The vision for the Black Diaspora Archive at The University of Texas at Austin came into focus in 2013 as a…
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Transitory Ghosts: Haitians and Dominico-Haitians in Santo Domingo
STUDENT RESEARCH: CITIZENSHIP AND LIMBO IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC BY JOSÉ RUBIO-ZEPEDA “I’m a nobody in my own country.” These are the words spoken by Juliana…
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Unsettling Ideas about Africa and Blackness: Contemplating Race and Belonging in the Dominican Republic
STUDENT RESEARCH: CITIZENSHIP AND LIMBO IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC BY JHEISON ROMAIN As I neared the end of my field research in the Dominican Republic, while…