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Mélanie Lamotte, 'Making Race: Policy, Sex and Social Order in the French Atlantic and Indian Oceans, c. 1608–1759'

W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute Colloquium Series - Wednesday, September 29, 12:00pm
Ada Ferrer, 'Cuba: An American History'

In conversation with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - Thursday, September 30, 7pm
Mary Hicks, 'Captive Cosmopolitans: Black Mariners and the World of South Atlantic Slavery, 1721-1835'

Alumni Fellows Virtual Reading Series - Friday, October 1, 1:00pm
Tricia Rose, 'Trayvon Martin: No Chance Encounter'

W. E. B. Du Bois Virtual Lecture Series - Wednesday, October 6, 4pm
Legacies of Eugenics in New England

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HutchinsCenter 1979. The discovery of Esperança Garcia’s petition against slavery makes her an icon for Afro-Brazilian women; a statue in the regional capital of Piauí now commemorates her historic act of resistance. Learn more at t.co/1N4SXi9aeD #behindthedata t.co/YM8999vU4n t.co/sq7Qajv7Ti

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HutchinsCenter 1770. Enslaved cook, Esperança Garcia, protests her master’s violence, telling the governor: “I am a punching bag.” She asks to be reunited with her husband. Read Brazil’s first known petition against slavery at t.co/1N4SXhRyQ3 #behindthedata t.co/YM8999eiFN t.co/SbX2LtWOq6

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Transition's first trilingual issue, Afro-Latin America, features a range of voices testifying to the diversity of black experience across Latin America.

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