Showing posts with label Indian Ocean. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Indian Ocean. Show all posts
August 7, 2025

Representations of Indian Ocean slavery

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 S o little work on African slavery in the Indian Ocean world is grounded with descendant communities. It would be great if more of this sch...
January 21, 2024

Zanzibar Was a Country (UC Press, 2024)

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 My book comes out with University of California Press April 9, 2024. "Zanzibar Was a Country explores the transregional impact of the ...
January 25, 2021

Webinar Presentation: Slavery and Anti-Black Racism in the Modern Indian Ocean

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A short and very basic introduction to how slavery and racism interrelate in the making of the modern world, particularly the societies of t...
April 19, 2016

IKHLAS Video: "Invisible Blacks, Red Seas and Indian Ocean Worlds"

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Dear Readers, Working on some posts...but mostly working on my dissertation. I'm posting here a video of a panel I appeared on back at t...
October 14, 2015

The Art of Hubbing: The Role of Small Islands in Indian Ocean Connectivity, October 15-17, 2015

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Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology International Conference The Art of Hubbing: The Role of Small Islands in Indian Ocean Connect...
January 14, 2015

Connecting the Gems of the Indian Ocean

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Had the privilege to travel to Washington, DC in November to participate in the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art's roundtable ...
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June 16, 2014

Zanjibar: Wa Akfān min Rahim al’alam (Book Review)

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Laura Goffman is a Ph.D. student in Middle East and North African History at Georgetown University. She also holds an M.A. in Near Eastern S...
May 12, 2014

Comparative African Diasporas: Towards a Thematic Reading List

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Dear readers, Some time ago, I compiled a bibliography for my exams on comparing Atlantic and Indian Ocean diasporas from Africa. I presen...