Join Stanford Humanities Center’s Critical Carceral Studies Collective on Weds 2/7 for a conversation with Ussama Makdisi & Aminah Joudeh In this urgent conversation, we’ll discuss intersections of settler colonialism & carceral power in occupied Palestine. RSVP for the Zoom link!

When I tell you I’m so freaking excited about this! I’m totally buying a new outfit! Whatchoutnow!!!! 💃🏾 💅🏾 🤩

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Excited to host Kathryn Gin Lum for our annual lecture in religion Amherst College. If you’re in the area, you don’t want to miss it!

I’m coming out of my cave to congratulate Lindsey Harding on becoming the first woman to be named NBA G League Coach of the Year! Excellence from Day 1…💕

Gaga for the poster my colleague Liz Cecil made for our More-than-human Religion conference, coming up at FSU, April 25-28, featuring Amitav Ghosh, Wai Chee Dimock, curators from the Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum and much more! morethanhuman.create.fsu.edu

The LARGEST number of enslaved Africans were transported to BRAZIL, nearly 6 MILLION. My book Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery (UChicagoPress October 2024) draws on this fact to tell the history of slavery in the Americas #slaveryarchive press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…

BRACE YOURSELVES: Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua by Paul Lovejoy and Nielson Bezerra, coming your way in January 2025 with UNC Press amazon.com/Mahommah-Gardo…

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF BLACK WOMEN IN THE U.S. Interested persons should submit an abstract & 2-page CV to the General Editor, Dr. Karen Cook Bell at [email protected] with the subject line "Cambridge History of Black Women." abwh.org/call-for-submi…

Save The Date! ABWH will convene our 45th Anniversary Conference in New Orleans later this year! Our conference theme is: "Our Mothers' Gardens:" The Future of Black Women's History! See you December 5-7, 2024! #ABWH2024 #ABWH45 #ABWHFuture

We are pleased to announce the opening of nominations for the 2024 ASWAD Academic Prizes, including the Outstanding Article Prize, First Book Prize, Rosalyn Terborg-Penn Prize, and P. Sterling Stuckey Prize. More details are available at aswadiaspora.org.

Historians who care about language must stop calling "reparations" the payments made to slave owners after emancipation. Reparations are about redress past wrongs. What Haiti paid to France in 1825 was a RANSOM of 150 million francs. Ransom was also what was paid to all slave

My book has a (beautiful) cover!

book is book!