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Black Atlantic intellectual histories

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AfAAS Review · July 12, 2025 · 10 min read

This collection traces the intellectual routes connecting African and American worlds through writing, teaching, migration, and political thought.

Routes, not borders

The Black Atlantic is a geography of relation. Its intellectual histories exceed the borders that attempt to contain them.

Reading across traditions

The essays in this collection place literary, historical, and cultural traditions in conversation with one another.

Open scholarship

AfAAS Review makes space for scholarship that is rigorous, accessible, and available to the community.

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