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Episode Info & Recommended Readings

Season 1 

Episode 1: Escaping Slavery, Building Communities

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Episode 2: Zwarte Piet and Vestiges of Dutch Colonialism 

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Suggested Readings

Emily Raboteau, "Who Is Zwarte Piet? A Holiday Tradition in the Netherlands Involving Blackface Has Sparked a Debate about Race, the Legacy of Slavery, and the Vestiges of Colonialism," The Virginia Quarterly Review 90, no. 1 (2014). 

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Sherilyn Deen, "Tracing Pasts and Colonial Numbness: Decolonial Dynamics in the Netherlands." Etnofoor 30, no. 2 (2018). 

 

Lubumbe Van De Velde, "Black Pete, Black Motherhood and Womanist Ethics," in To Exist Is to Resist: Black Feminism in Europe, eds. Emejulu Akwugo and Sobande Francesca, London: Pluto Press, 2019.

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Yvon Van Der Pijl and Karina Goulordava, "Black Pete, "Smug Ignorance," and the Value of the Black Body in Postcolonial Netherlands." NWIG: New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids 88, no. 3/4 (2014): 262-91. 

 

Léontine Meijer-van Mensch and Peter Van Mensch, "Proud to Be Dutch?: Intangible Heritage and National Identity in the Netherlands," in Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage, eds. Michelle L. Stefano, Peter Davis, and Gerard Corsane, 125-36. doi:10.7722/j.ctt81mt8.15.

 

Black Pete: Analyzing a Racialized Dutch Tradition Through the History of Western Creations of Stereotypes of Black Peoples

 

Larry Vincent Buster, The Art and History of Black Memorabilia, 2000

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Who is (Zwarte) Piet? A Continuing Evolution

Suggested Readings

Guillaume Aubert, "“To Establish One Law and Definite Rules”: Race, Religion, and the

Transatlantic Origins of the Louisiana Code Noir." In Louisiana: Crossroads of the Atlantic World.

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“Cane River Creole Community.” RFLP: Cane River Creole Community-A Driving Tour.

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Leonard Dinnerstein, "A Note on Southern Attitudes toward Jews." Jewish Social Studies 32,

no. 1 (1970). 

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Yelena Khanga, and Susan Jacoby. Soul to Soul: a Black Russian American Family, 1865-1992,

New York: W.W. Norton, 1992.

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Lalita Tademy, Cane River. London: Headline, 2015.

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Katya Gibel Azoulay, Black, Jewish, and Interracial: Its Not the Color of Your Skin, but the

Race of Your Kin, & Other Myths of Identity. Durham: Duke University Press, 1997.

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Tudor Parfitt, "The Emergence of Black Jews in the United States." In Black Jews in Africa and

the Americas, 66-101. Cambridge, Massachusetts; London, England: Harvard University

Press, 2013. 

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Allison Schottenstein, "Jews, Race, and Southernness." In The New Encyclopedia of

Southern Culture: Volume 24: Race, eds.Thomas C. Holt, Laurie B. Green, and Charles Reagan Wilson. 

Episode 3: Black and Jewish Assimilation in Louisiana 

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Connect with KyAndre Holifield on LinkedIn and visit his website 

Episode 4: Transatlantic African Heritage Tourism 

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Connect with Tianna Mobley on Instagram 

Suggested Readings

Marcia Chatelain, Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America (Liveright Publishing, 2020).

 

Patricia de Santana Pinho, “We Bring Home the Roots: African American Women Touring the Diaspora and Bearing the Nation,” in Mapping Diaspora, African American Roots Tourism in Brazil. 

 

David Afriyie Donkor, “In the House of Stories: Village Aspirations and Heritage Tourism,” in Spiders of the Market, Ghanaian Trickster Performance in a Web of Neoliberalism.

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Jarkko Saarinen and Haretsebe Manwa, “Tourism as a Socio-Cultural Encounter: Host-Guest Relations in Tourism Development in Botswana,” Botswana Notes and Records 39.

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Weems, Robert E. Desegregating the Dollar: African American Consumerism in the Twentieth Century.

Suggested Readings

Aimé Césaire, “Discourse on Colonialism”

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Frantz Fanon, “On Violence”

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Jamaica Kincaid, A Small Place

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Claudia Rankine, “The White Card”

Episode 5: Anti-Colonial Literature 

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Connect with Perry Flores via email: pflores6@fordham.edu

Episode 6: President John Tyler and Slavery

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Connect with Frances Tyler on LinkedIn.

Suggested Readings

Sherwood Forest Plantation Foundation Facebook

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President John Tyler's Enslaved Households 

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President without a Party by Christopher Leahy

 

John Tyler, the Accidental President by Edward Crapol

 

They Were Her Property by Stephanie Jones-Rogers

 

Empire of Cotton by Sven Beckert

 

Repair: Redeeming the Promise of Abolition by Katherine Franke

 

A database called Enslaved Ancestor File created by the Center for Local History in Charles City County, VA.

Suggested Readings

"Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln"  by Sarah Fling

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"Paul Cuffe Biography," Paul Cuffe: An African-American and Native-American

Heritage Trail 

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"Who led the First  Back-to-Africa Effort?" by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. 

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"The African-American Mosaic: Colonization" Library of Congress

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Paul Cuffe's Personal and Family Letters

Episode 7: Frederick Douglass and Paul Cuffe

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Image Credit: Paul Cuffe 

Connect with Sarah on LinkedIn and Twitter

Episode 8: Indigenous and Afro-Colombian History

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Suggested Readings

Liberty and Equality in Caribbean Colombia by Aline Helg

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Matthew Restall, “Black Conquistadors: Armed Africans in Early Spanish America”

 

 

David Wheat, Atlantic Africa and the Spanish Caribbean, 1570-1640

 

 

Margaret M. Olsen, “‘Negros Horros’ and ‘Cimarrones’ on the Legal Frontiers of the Caribbean: Accessing the African Voice in Colonial Spanish American Texts”

 

 

Loredana Giolitto, “Esclavitud y libertad en Cartagena de Indias.  

Suggested Readings

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Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World by James Sweet

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The Experiential Caribbean: Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic by Pablo Gómez

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The Shambaa Kingdom: A History by Steven Feierman

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Ngoma: Discourses of Healing in Central and Southern Africa by John M. Janzen

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Neil Kodesh, “History from the Healer’s Shrine: Genre, Historical Imagination, and Early Ganda History,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 49, 3 (2007).

Episode 9: Public Healing in the African Atlantic

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Episode 10: Untangling the Sargasso Sea of Feminism

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Suggested Readings

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

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Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

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"Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism" by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

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A Historical Study of Women in Jamaica, 1655-1844 by Lucille Mair

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Brown Girl In The Ring By Nalo Hopkinson

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Here Comes the Sun: A Novel by Nicole Dennis-Benn

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Suggested Readings

I Am Queen Mary 

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Break This Down: ‘I Am Queen Mary’ at Barnard

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Daughters of the Trade: Atlantic Slavers and Interracial Marriage on the Gold Coast by Pernille Ipsen

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Considering Multiscalar Approaches to Creolization Among Enslaved Laborers at Estate Bethlehem, St. Croix, US Virgin Islands by Stephan Lenik

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A Maroon Settlement on St. Croix by Polly Pope

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An Extraordinary Eighteenth-Century Map of the Danish Sugar-Plantation Island St. Croix by Daniel Hopkins

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Episode 11: Slavery in Danish St. Croix 

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Episode 12: New Orleans: Slavery and the Urban Environment 

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Title: New Orleans from St. Patrick's Church 1852 / J.W. Hill & Smith

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Suggested Readings

Dudley, Tara. “Ownership, engagement, and entrepreneurship: the gens de couleur libres and the architecture of antebellum New Orleans, 1820-1850.” Ph.D. Diss., University of Texas at Austin, 2012.

 

Force, Pierre “The House on Bayou Road: Atlantic Creole Networks in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.” Journal of American History 100, no. 1 (June 2013): 21–45.

 

Hall, Gwendolyn Midlo. Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth Century. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1992.

 

Hangar, Kimberly. Bounded Lives, Bounded Places: Free Black Society in Colonial New Orleans, 1769-1803. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1997.

 

Ingersoll, Thomas. Mammon and Manon in Early New Orleans: The First Slave Society in the Deep South, 1718-1819. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1999.

 

Johnson, Jessica Marie. Wicked Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. 

 

Johnson, Rashauna. Slavery’s Metropolis: Unfree Labor in New Orleans during the Age of Revolutions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.​

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Spear, Jennifer. Race, Sex, and Social Order in Early New Orleans. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.

 

Usner, Jr., Daniel H. American Indians in Early New Orleans: from Calumet to Raquette. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2018.

 

CAHP and Treme

Anthony, Arthé A., Picturing Black New Orleans: A Creole Photographer’s View of the Early Twentieth Century. University Press of Florida, 2012)

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Evans, Freddi Williams. Congo Square: African Roots in New Orleans. Lafayette: University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press, 2011. 

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Magill, John T., “Big Easy Uneasy Street the History of Claiborne Avenue”, Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, Summer 2012.

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Roudané, Mark Charles. The New Orleans Tribune: An Introduction to America’s First Black Daily Newspaper.

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Suggested Readings

Suggested Readings

Founded upon The Seas: A History of the Cayman  Islands and Their People by Michael Craton, 2003

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The Lawless Caymanas: A Story of Slavery and Freedom: the West India Regiment Connection by Brian L. Kieran


The Caribbean Memory Project

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Williams, Christopher A. “Premature Abolition, Ethnocentrism, and Bold Blackness: Race Relations in the Cayman Islands, 1834–1840.” The Historian 75, no. 4 (2013): 781–805. 

Episode 13: Debunking Myths: Slavery in the Cayman Islands 

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Connect with Katlen Bush on Instagram and Mikana Scott at mikana.scott@temple.edu 

Episode 14: Social and Cultural Histories in a Global Atlantic 

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To learn more about Professor Wiesner-Hanks click here 

Suggested Readings by Professor Merry Wiesner-Hanks

A Concise History of the World (Cambridge 2015)

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Early Modern Europe 1450- 1789 (Cambridge, 2nd ed. 2013)

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Christianity and Sexuality in the Early Modern World: Regulating Desire, Reforming Practice (Routledge, 2nd ed. 2010)

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A History of Western Society, Volume 2: From the Age of Exploration to the Present 

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Gender in History: Global Perspectives (Blackwell, 2nd ed. 2010). 

Works of Global History

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What is Global History by Pamela Kyle Crossley

 

The Birth of the Modern World, 1780-1914 by Christopher Bayly

 

The Tools of Empire: Technology and European Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century by Daniel R. Headrick

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A History of Humanity: The Evolution of the Human System by Patrick Manning

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