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Anthony Bogues

Brown University

Anthony Bogues is a writer, scholar, and curator. He has published nine books in the fields of political thought and critical theory, Caribbean intellectual history, and Caribbean art. He is currently working on a book titled Black Critique and a project on politics and music in Jamaica in 1970s. He is also co-editing some of the unpublished writings of Sylvia Wynter and editing a volume on Haitian Art. He is the Asa Messer Professor of Humanities and Critical Theory, Professor of Africana Studies, and an affiliated professor in the department of History of Art and Architecture at Brown University. He is the inaugural director of the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice at Brown University and a visiting professor and curator at the University of Johannesburg. He has curated art shows in the Caribbean, South Africa, and the United States. He completed his PhD in political theory at University of the West Indies, Mona.

Bogues’s videos are used in these Choices Program curriculum units:
Colonization and Independence in Africa
The Haitian Revolution
Racial Slavery in the Americas: Resistance, Freedom, and Legacies

VIDEOS
Who are you and what do you do?
Why is it important for students to learn about slavery?
What is racial slavery and how is it different from other forms of slavery?
What is the relationship between racial slavery and anti-Black racism?
What are some common misconceptions about racial slavery?
Why should we use the term “enslaved people” instead of “slaves”?
How did European colonialism impact racial slavery in the Americas?
How did the transatlantic slave trade shape the economy of the modern world?
What were the differences between slave systems across the Americas?
What is self-emancipation?
How did enslaved people resist slavery?
Who were the maroons?
How did the Haitian Revolution evolve over time?
How did the Haitian Revolution change the world?
How did the Haitian Revolution shape the question of freedom in the modern world?
What are the legacies of racial slavery?
What are reparations? Why are reparations for slavery controversial?
What is justice? What does justice look like for those affected by slavery?
How is the history of slavery remembered today?
Why were the 1994 elections in South Africa important?
What were some challenges that the newly independent African states faced?
What was the Pan-African movement?
How did Africans begin to resist colonialism?
How did Europeans use the idea of race to justify colonialism?
What methods did Europeans use to subjugate African colonies?
Why did European countries divide Africa into regions of influence in the 1880s?
Who are you and what do you do?
Who was François Makandal?
What was the significance of Vodou to the Haitian Revolution?
Who are you and what do you do?
How are the legacies of French colonialism important to understanding Haiti today?
What is the significance of the American, French, and Haitian Revolutions?
How did the French Revolution affect Saint-Domingue?
Why did Louverture become alienated from the people of Saint-Domingue in 1801?
Why did Louverture’s generals join with the French in 1802?
What was the U.S. response to the Haitian Revolution?
Why did Haiti agree to pay reparations to France after the Haitian Revolution?
How did the Haitian Revolution affect the world?
Why should U.S. high school students study the Haitian Revolution?
What were the factors contributing to a successful revolution in Saint-Domingue?
Why do some historians say the Haitian Revolution was in fact two or even three revolutions?
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