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Review: “The Silent Shore: The Lynching of Matthew Williams and the Politics of Racism in the Free State” by Charles L. Chavis Jr, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022, pp. 304.

23. October 2023

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In the realm of American and African American historical literature, rare pieces have unravelled the complex fabric of racial brutality with the equivalent seriousness and scholarly precision as Charles L. Chavis Jr.’s masterwork, “The Silent Shore.” Chavis’s opus, delving meticulously into the lynching of Matthew Williams in Salisbury, Maryland, in 1931, is far beyond a…

Review: W. A. SCHABAS, The Customary International Law of Human Rights, Oxford

20. December 2021

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The book The Customary International Law of Human Rights by William A. Schabas (Professor of Law at Middlesex University, London) analyzes the significance that customary law has in safeguarding human rights, a topic that today creates a strong debate in the international political circles since it may be necessary to revise the legal codes of…

RECENSIONE: La Macchina del Tempo – Quando l’Europa ha iniziato a scrivere la storia del mondo – Review: The Time Machine – When Europe Began to Write World History

13. September 2021

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The book “La machine à remonter le temps: Quand l’Europe s’est mise à écrire l’histoire du monde” by historian Serge Gruzinski, theorizes the beginning of global history as early as the sixteenth century, through the acculturation and submission of indigenous historical narrative to the European, following the Spanish and Portuguese conquest of the West Indies.…

Imagined Enemies, Concrete Victims. The Speech of Léon Mugesera and the Rwandan Genocide of 1994

23. January 2018

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The case that will be analysed is the speech delivered by the political figure Léon Mugesera in November 1992, linked to the Rwandan genocide of 1994. Through his words, it is possible to trace some of the main narratives that primed the ground for the genocide. They are an example of the processes through which…

The lynching of blacks in the United States of America – Photographs as historical memories

27. November 2017

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According to the literature, photographs of human lynching had an important role in supporting the practice and the predisposition to photographing. This act was globally common. The aim of this brief paper is to understand why photographs of blacks lynching by whites were so important in the United States of America, especially in the South.