Happening this week: An online roundtable on Antiracism in Cuba: The Unfinished Revolution by Devyn Spence Benson

Black Perspectives, the blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online roundtable on Devyn Spence Benson’s Antiracism in Cuba: The Unfinished Revolution, published in 2016 by UNC Press.

The roundtable begins on Monday, November 6, 2017, and concludes on Saturday, November 11, 2017.

The roundtable will feature responses from

Yesenia Barragan (Dartmouth College)

Aisha K. Finch (UCLA; author of the UNC Press book Rethinking Slave Rebellion in Cuba:  La Escalera and the Insurgencies of 1841-1844)

Nancy Raquel Mirabal (University of Maryland)

Melina Pappademos (University of Connecticut Storrs; author of the UNC Press book Black Political Activism and the Cuban Republic)

Sandy Placido (Oberlin College).

On the final day, Devyn Spence Benson (Davidson College) will offer concluding remarks.

During the week of the online roundtable, Black Perspectives will publish new blog posts every day at 5:30AM EST. You can follow Black Perspectives (@BlkPerspectives) and AAIHS (@AAIHS) on Twitter; like AAIHS on Facebook; or subscribe to their blog for updates. By subscribing to Black Perspectives, each new post will automatically be delivered to your inbox during the week of the roundtable.

For more info, visit AAHIS here.

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