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Resistência, sobrevivência e associativismo: reinventando a vida nos territórios de escravidão moderna (séculos XVIII-XX)
(2021)Este dossiê apresenta resultados inéditos de uma agenda de investigação que problematiza a dinâmica das relações sociais, no Brasil, discutindo como as populações escravizadas e libertas montaram estratégias de sobrevivência e de reinvenção em territórios demarcados pela escravidão moderna por meio do associativismo. Os artigos se espraiam entre os ... -
Liberdade entre fronteiras: libertos no Território Indígena e no Sul dos Estados Unidos
(2019)This essay examines how the former slaves of Choctaw Indians, and in Indian Territory more generally, discussed and imagined freedom within this context by exploring their memories of the era within the Works Progress Administration’s (WPA) slave narratives. These former slaves often described owners and overseers, and the announcement of emancipation ... -
Challenges and Considerations Related to Studying Dementia in Blacks/African Americans
(2017)Blacks/African Americans have been reported to be ∼2–4 times more likely to develop clinical Alzheimer’s disease (AD) compared to Whites. Unfortunately, study design challenges (e.g., recruitment bias), racism, mistrust of healthcare providers and biomedical researchers, confounders related to socioeconomic status, and other sources of bias are often ... -
Who Cares Who Made the Map? La Carta del Cantino and its anonymous maker
(2017)This paper explores the authorship of the anonymous La Carta del Cantino through an analysis of design signatures. Using high resolution digital copies of charts in ArcGIS, La Carta del Cantino is compared to contemporaneous charts. The long-held assumption that La Carta del Cantino was a surreptitious copy of the Portuguese king’s royal pattern chart ... -
Paradoxical Infrastructures: Ruins, Retrofit, and Risk
(2015)In recent years, a dramatic increase in the study of infrastructure has occurred in the social sciences and humanities, following upon foundational work in the physical sciences, architecture, planning, information science, and engineering. This article, authored by a multidisciplinary group of scholars, probes the generative potential of infrastructure ... -
Drilling Down: Can Historians Operationalize Koselleck’s Stratigraphical Times?
(2015)According to Reinhart Koselleck, in every moment a congeries of “temporal strata” are effectively co-present, but not necessarily coherent, hence the “simultaneity of the nonsimultaneous.” Contrast this with the notion of a zeitgeist in which every aspect of a historical moment is integrated by some master principle. There are so many trajectories ... -
Beyond Failure: Rethinking Confederate State Policies on the Western Frontier
(2015-08-01)This paper was delivered at the Remaking North American Sovereignty conference held in Banff, Canada, July 30-August 1, 2015. -
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’When Men Are Weak‘: The Imperial Feminism of Frieda von Bülow
(1998)Frieda von Bülow was a colonialist woman author and activist who also engaged the bourgeois women's movement of pre-First World War Germany. She is of interest to scholars of German colonialism, racial thought, feminism, and women's literature. This article interprets her life experiences, including travel to German East Africa (mainland Tanzania) ...