Adom Getachew

Adom Getachew is a Professor of Political Science and Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Worldmaking After Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination and the coeditor, with Jennifer Pitts, of W.E.B. Du Bois: International Thought. (June 2024)

Black Atlantics

The scholar Louis Chude-Sokei does the urgent work of reimagining the African diaspora as multiple diasporas.

Floating in a Most Peculiar Way

by Louis Chude-Sokei

The Last “Darky”: Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora

by Louis Chude-Sokei

The Sound of Culture: Diaspora and Black Technopoetics

by Louis Chude-Sokei

June 20, 2024 issue

History’s Presence

“There is a growing public historical consciousness; the past and its meaning is, in a visceral way, part of political debate and social life.”

August 12, 2023

Africa, the Center of History

In Born in Blackness, Howard French works to counteract the “symphony of erasure” that has obscured and denied Africa’s contributions to the contemporary world.

Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War

by Howard W. French

August 17, 2023 issue

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