Global Black Thought, the official journal of
@AAIHS
, is now accepting submissions for a special issue on race and identity in colonial Latin America and the Caribbean. Submissions deadline is 7/1/24. Read more today at
@BlkPerspectives
: .
"The Wilmington Massacre of 1898 remains one of the clearest demonstrations of white supremacy and Jim Crow violently erasing the progress and promise of African America," writes
@Polite_DPJ
today at
@BlkPerspectives
as a part of our
#BlackFamily
forum.
Today on
@BlkPerspectives
, Ida E. Jones reviews Freeman Marshall’s Ain’t I an Anthropologist: Zora Neale Hurston Beyond the Literary Icon (
@IllinoisPress
): "an insightful read about how academic obscurity can pigeonhole the legacy of Black women thinkers"—
"McGill University’s institutional history dramatically changes when it accounts for the fact that its founder, James McGill, was an enslaver and trader of enslaved Black and Indigenous people," pens
@MelissaNShaw
. Read more on Black Canadian Slavery here:
Beginning on Mon. May 18 and concluding on Fri. May 22,
@AAIHS
in collaboration with
@JAAHistory
will host an online roundtable on Saidiya Hartman’s (
@sojournerlife
) Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval (
@wwnorton
)—
“We see her at flashpoints in her husband’s political and very public career and get glimpses of her private life through family and foe. Douglass’s biographers mention but never dwell on her. Who was Anna Murray Douglass?,” writes
@DainaRameyBerry
—
"Black women’s socio-political activism publicly demonstrated a nuanced understanding of the [Civil War's] profound and damaging impact on various Black communities," writes Holly Pinheiro today at
@BlkPerspectives
.
Today on
@BlkPerspectives
, Nathan Connolly offers a review of Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s (
@KeeangaYamahtta
) book, Race for Profit (
@uncpressblog
), which could also help us make sense of the inequality we are all bearing witness to with Covid-19 —
…
@AAIHS
“The African American Intellectual History Society (
@AAIHS
) stands in solidarity with Dr. Lorgia García Peña, a Black Studies scholar who was recently denied tenure at Harvard University.” — A Response from Black Scholars —
"The connecting tissue between 1662 and 2022 are fundamentally rooted in the history of slavery and reproduction," writes
@ProfJLMorgan
today at
@BlkPerspectives
.
In today’s post on
@BlkPerspectives
, the AAIHS Editors offer a feature interview with Zakiyyah Iman Jackson (
@ZIJackson
) on her new book, Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World (
@NYUpress
) —
@AAIHS
In today’s post, Annette Joseph-Gabriel (
@AnnetteJosephG
) interviews Robin Mitchell (
@ParisNoire
) about her new book, Vénus Noire: Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century France (
@UGAPress
) —
@AAIHS
Today is W.E.B. Du Bois's birthday! In recognition of the 150th anniversary of his birth, we have been hosting a week-long forum examining his intellectual, social, political & cultural importance. Check out the excellent pieces –
#DuBoisForum
#BHM
"For too long, the Imprisoned Black Radical Intellectual Tradition and the Black Radical Tradition have been estranged" -- writes
@agitateorganize
in his introduction with
@garrett_felber
to our online roundtable on the Imprisoned Black Radical Tradition -
Beginning March 8th and concluding on March 12th,
@BlkPerspectives
will be hosting an online roundtable on Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor’s (
@KeeangaYamahtta
) Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership (
@UNC_Press
)—
"...details how the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act invigorated the movement and brought to the fore the widespread necessity of political violence as an abolitionist tool" -- writes Mike Jirik in his review of Kellie Carter Jackson's, Force and Freedom -
"My hope is that you see the book as an offering and an opportunity to think about what it means for Black people to dare to dream, in imperfect but poignant ways..." writes
@KCorinealdi
in response to this week's roundtable on her book Panama in Black.
"The African American Intellectual History Society (
@AAIHS
) is pleased to announce the finalists for the fifth annual Pauli Murray Book Prize for the best book in Black intellectual history."
#AAIHS2022
“In the history of the slave trade and its repression, sharks have played a large part in the narratives which detail the Atlantic crossing,” writes Aderivaldo Ramos de Santana in a fascinating essay today at
@BlkPerspectives
.
Beginning on Mon. Aug 10 and concluding on Fri. Aug 14, in honor of Black August,
@AAIHS
will host an online roundtable on the Imprisoned Black Radical Tradition organized by Garrett Felber (
@garrett_felber
)—
March 19-28
@blkperspectives
is hosting a forum called "The Books, Archives, and Monuments That Shaped Me," which brings together scholars to discuss foundational books, historical monuments, and archival documents that have inspired them to be historians.
Beginning Dec. 7th and concluding on Dec. 11th,
@BlkPerspectives
will be hosting an online roundtable on Brandon Byrd’s (
@bronaldbyrd
), The Black Republic: African Americans and the Fate of Haiti (
@PennPress
)—
@BlkPerspectives
is excited to announce the next online forum on "Race & Latin America." This two-week forum features essays that explore how Black people are challenging ideas of “Post Racial Democracies” and understandings of race in Latin America.
We conclude our forum on Black Women and
#ReproductiveRights
with an interview of pioneering Black feminist
@TheBarbaraSmith
with her biographer
@StrugIsEternal
. "I would really beat the drum for abortion funds," she argues, and more. Check it out here:
.
@AAIHS
President
@DrHettie2017
begins our forum on "Black Women and the Brown v. Board of Education decision" with an essay on Black Women at Teacher College, Columbia before 1954. She describes them as the "intellectual architects" of the Brown decision.
In today’s post on
@BlkPerspectives
, the AAIHS Editors interview Kathleen E.A. Monteith on her new book, Plantation Coffee in Jamaica 1790- 1848 (
@UWIPRESS
) —
@AAIHS
"Grace Lee Boggs and Wangari Maathai were central figures in the development of the global environmental movement," writes
@DrHettie2017
. Read the full essay today at
@BlkPerspectives
: .
#AAIHS2021
: Call for Papers–A Virtual Conference (March 19-20, 2021)
We invite scholars to think deeply about the complicated and often conflicted relationship between Blackness and “The West” (as a concept, imagined geography, and physical space).
"The Haitian Revolution has been a powerful and consistent trope in US hip hop. Rappers in the United States have used hip hop to create historical counter-narratives..." writes
@DrSepinwall
today at
@BlkPerspectives
to continue our
#HipHop50
forum: .
We are pleased to announce the
#AAIHS2024
award winners–winners of the Pauli Murray Book Prize, the Maria Stewart Journal Article Prize, the C.L.R. James Research Fellowships, and the Du Bois-Wells Graduate Student Paper Prize! Read more:
“The workforce—mostly black women—made plant operations possible. But what the women described as ‘15th century working conditions,’ led to 22 months of boycotting and labor unrest,” writes
@TheHistorianD
on the historic strike at Sandersons Farm—
Tejai Beulah Howard's essay, "How Pauli Murray Masterminded Brown v. Board" continues our forum. She asserts, "Murray spent her entire legal career developing strategies to end racism and sexism in matters of the law, and later, in the Christian church."
New at
@BlkPerspectives
--
@MickellCarter
writes, "During the 1980s,
@IAMQUEENLATIFAH
used her own artistry to confront social issues and injustices affecting Black communities at home and abroad." Read the latest essay in our
#HipHop50
online forum 👉👉.
Today on
@BlkPerspectives
, Sasha Turner (
@DrSashaTurner
) offers, "1619?" -- "Our rituals, our beliefs, melded together to heal and bring us together. Just like my mother and her mother and her mother before we go to the river to wash and to pray." --
In today’s post on
@BlkPerspectives
, Yannick Marshall (
@furtherblack
) offers, “An Appeal — Bring the Maroon to the Foreground in Black Intellectual History” —
@AAIHS
In today's
@BlkPerspectives
post, Sarah Debrew writes, "The popularity of anti-Black racism worldwide has rendered Africa an amorphous mass situated at the margins of knowledge production, despite vast amounts of material evidence proving otherwise."
“She was a human being who grew and changed in the public spotlight in a way most people never do,” says Robert Greene II (
@robgreeneII
) about the life and legacy of civil rights activist Gloria Richardson—
"The historical narrative on Afro-Venezuelans has been evolutionary since the turn of the twentieth century," writes Menika Dirkson in her essay, "La Afrovenezolanidad: A Historiography of the Black Experience in Venezuela"—
Today is the 100th anniversary of the
#TulsaRaceMassacre
. In this piece, attorney, professor and Tulsa
#historian
Hannibal B. Johnson--who serves on the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission--reflects on
#history
& racial trauma.
@AAIHS
"The Underground Railroad was an act of Black memorialization when the freedoms won through the war were threatened by new iterations of anti-Black violence being used to dismantle Reconstruction," writes
@jwbernier
today at
@BlkPerspectives
.
📢 Coinciding with the 105th anniversary of Fannie Lou Hamer’s birthday (October 6, 1917), we are collaborating with the
@CivilHumanRight
to host an online roundtable on
@KeishaBlain
's highly acclaimed book, Until I am Free (
@BeaconPressBks
, 2021) —
"Fugitive women displayed a radical consciousness that challenged the prevailing belief that enslaved women could not gain their freedom through subversive actions,"-
@kbphd08
interviewed by
@robgreeneII
at
@BlkPerspectives
this morning.
@HilaryGreen77
writes, "From enlistment to the pension, the working-class Black Civil War experience was a struggle for race, citizenship, and family." Read the full essay today at
@BlkPerspectives
:
In today’s post on
@BlkPerspectives
, Camille Goldmon reviews Karla Slocum’s book, Black Towns, Black Futures: The Enduring Allure of a Black Place in the American West (
@uncpressblog
) —
@AAIHS
"Within transatlantic communities, the oral narratives of escaped Africans, which reveal acts of strategic resistance, were central to the expression of human agency," writes
@kbphd08
in "Black Resistance and Slave Politics in Lowcountry Georgia"—
Today at
@BlkPerspectives
, Robin Kelley writes, "García Peña examines what it means to be a colonial subject of an empire in denial of its own colonial rule through the life, work, and migration of the Puerto Rican scholar and activist, Arturo Schomburg."
Today on
@BlkPerspectives
, Hilda Lloréns (
@ShEcoAnarchist
) offers, “Racialization works differently here in Puerto Rico, do not bring your U.S.-centric ideas about race here!”— “there is no such thing as a 'less violent' form of anti-Black racism."
Today on
@BlkPerspectives
, Taylor Prescott reviews Vincent Carretta’s Equiano, the African: Biography of a Self-Made Man (
@UGAPress
): "Carretta succeeds at painting Equiano as an intelligent, introspective, and enterprising individual."
Read More:
👉🏾We are currently accepting applications for our spring 2019 editorial internship program. The internship, which begins in January 2019 and ends in May 2019, is open to graduate
#students
and advanced undergraduate students.
#History
#Writing
@AAIHS
“...the policing of Black women facilitated redevelopment, facilitated gentrification, facilitated the expansion of police power,” writes
@SimonBalto
in “How Policing Black Women’s Bodies Built the Modern City”—
"It is not presentist to note that racial slavery has had an indelible and residual impact on the lives of African Americans down to contemporary times," writes
@AAIHS
President
@DrHettie2017
at
@BlkPerspectives
. Read More:
“...Afropessimism contends that ‘Blacks are not Human subjects, but are instead structurally inert props, implements for the execution of White and non-Black fantasies and sadomasochistic pleasures.‘“ writes
@JRWinters77
in his review of Afropessimism —