Leviticus 25:39–46 describes a two-tier model of slavery that distinguishes Israelites from foreign slaves. It requires that Israelites be indentured only temporarily while foreigners can be enslaved as chattel (permanent property). This model resembles the distinction between White indentured slaves and Black chattel slaves in the American colonie...
In this essay, I explore the history and public memory of two important bishops in the Methodist churches in Georgia. Through an examination of the lives of my ancestor, Bishop George Foster Pierce, and his Black contemporary, Bishop Lucius Holsey, I seek to illustrate how the forces of settler colonialism, White supremacy, and emergent American ca...
Diplomsko delo temelji na semiotični analizi filma Get Out (2017) izpod režiserske taktirke Jordana Peeleja. S semiotično analizo in s pomočjo sekundarnih virov sem raziskala, kako Jordan Peele v filmu Get Out prikaže obstanek fizičnih in psiholoških ran suženjstva v Združenih državah Amerike po Obamovem mandatu. Glavni namen naloge je orisati real...
The essay offers a reflection on memories of traumatic histories, including African American slavery, Native American genocide, and the Holocaust. I weave personal memories together with a consideration of poetry, monuments, and other representations that sometimes tend to efface, sometimes come to grips, as best they can, with these appalling even...
Se presenta la villa romana de Gaius Iulius Rufio, situada en la via Flaminia (Regio VI, Italia) y su evolución cronológica. El análisis de las fases del conjunto arquitectónico se basa en el estudio de los mosaicos y las curvas cronológicas realizadas a partir de la cuantificación cerámica. La villa fue construida en el último cuarto del siglo I a...
La obra de Alexis de Tocqueville se dirige a hacer salir a los individuos del círculo de sus intereses privados, para que asuman su responsabilidad individual, política y social frente a la masa, escuchen a su deseo innato de libertad y hagan surgir de la igualdad, y, nunca contra ella, sino a través de ella, la libertad política y social. Su amor ...
The Jesuit mission to enslaved Africans founded in 1605 in Cartagena de las Indias is amongst the most extraordinary religious developments of early colonial Latin America. By the time Alonso de Sandoval, S.J. and Pedro Claver, S.J. began their work to baptize and catechize the thousands of slaves who passed through Cartagena’s port each year, the ...
Despite the overwhelming evidence of human rights violations within the Eritrean Military/National Service Programme (“MNSP”), adjudication of asylum applications made by Eritreans remains a challenge. Narrow interpretations of “slavery” have created obstacles for protection under the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees (“1951 Refuge...
Published in Der Islam
The significant roles played by eunuchs (castrated slaves) in Rasūlid Yemen have thus far escaped scholarly scrutiny. A systematic study of the historiographic and biographical writings of ʿAlī b. al-Ḥasan al-Khazrajī, chronicler of the Rasūlid court at the turn of the 9th/15th century, reveals that eunuchs figured prominently both in the highest r...
With this essay on decolonizing ways of knowing, I seek to understand the phantom histories of my father’s French family. Filling in silences in written family accounts with scholarship on Marseille’s maritime commerce, African history, African Diaspora studies, and my own archival research, I seek to reconnect European, African, and Caribbean thre...
