![]() ![]() Mustakeem is the two-time award-winning author of Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage, published through The University of Illinois Press in 2016 (Wesley-Logan prize for the best book for the history of the African Diaspora jointly awarded in 2017 by The American Historical Association and the Association for the Study of African American Life and history and the 2020 Dred Scott Freedom Award for Historical Literacy Excellence from the Dred Scott Heritage Foundation.) She is on Twitter Julius Scott, The Common Wind: Afro-American Currents in the Age of the Haitian Revolution She has been featured on BBC radio, the PBS documentary series “Many Rivers to Cross,” Vox, and recently on the ABWH-TV episode, “Black Women, History, and State Violence.” Dr. Her research and teaching interests focus on race, gender, slavery, violence, illness, criminality, and public memory of the past. Mustakeem is an Associate Professor in the Departments of History & African American and African Studies at Washington University in St. Mustakeem, Manuel Barcia, and Ana Lucia Araujo. Below are the recommendations of Sowande’ M. We invited three prominent scholars to recommend books that speak to the current historical moment and help us better understand the protests. ![]() Perhaps more than ever, we need to better educate ourselves on the history of slavery, and consider the ways in which it informs how we have arrived at the present. ![]()
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