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Black Perspectives
This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History and African Diaspora Studies. The Black Republic: African Americans and the Fate of Haiti was recently published by University of Pennsylvania Press. Read full article
Vanderbilt News
Celebrations of Juneteenth, the oldest known celebration in the United States commemorating the end of slavery, will be shaped this year by the 2020 political landscape, according to Brandon Byrd, assistant professor of history at Vanderbilt. Listen here
The University of Kansas
The University of Kansas Libraries have announced that Brandon Byrd, author and associate professor of history at Vanderbilt University, has been selected as the recipient of the 2023 Alyce Hunley Whayne Visiting Researchers Travel Award for his interest in studying the history of the African American experience in Kansas, particularly for use in a biography of Benjamin “Pap” Singleton.
INTERVIEWS & TALKS
On July 28, 1915, under the authority of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, USS Washington entered the harbor at Port-au-Prince….So begins today’s story from Dr. Brandon R. Byrd.
Our true history is LOADED with examples of Black resistance. Dr. Byrd shows how history reveals the truth about how our ancestors and contemporaries have risen up against oppression, and he takes us inside the most successful Black rebellion.
We speak with Brandon R. Byrd about his book The Black Republic: African Americans and the Fate of Haiti.
Brandon R. Byrd, published The Rise of African American Intellectual History in the journal Modern Intellectual History. The article offers a rich overview of a field Byrd says has been “marginalized for too long.”
Listen as we discuss the impact of one country in particular, Haiti (formerly Saint Domingue) – which became the first independent nation run by people of African descent–also known as The Black Republic.
In her autobiography, Black revolutionary Assata Shakur states, "Imperialism is an international system of exploitation, and, we, as revolutionaries, need to be internationalists to defeat it." For today's episode, we will be talking with Dr. Byrd about his book The Black Republic, and Radical Black Internationalism.
Listen as we discuss and examine with Dr. Byrd the multitude of responses by African American leaders towards Haiti following the Civil War and going into the 20th century.
Byrd applied the “Page 99 Test” to his new book, The Black Republic, and reported the following . . .