March, 2017 - AAIHS

Social Death and Insurgent Discourses in Jordan Peele’s “Get Out”

March 27, 2017March 31, 2017 J. T. Roane Black film, film, Racial Violence, racism

*Editor’s Note: This essay contains spoilers* As Jordan Peele’s blockbuster hit Get Out progresses, Chris Washington (Daniel Kaluuya) discovers that

Plenary talk on Abolitionism and Black Intellectual History. Photo: Brandon Byrd/Twitter.

#AAIHS2017: Reflecting on the Past’s Presence 2.0

March 27, 2017March 30, 2017 Phillip Luke Sinitiere #AAIHS2017, black intellectual history, conference, W.E.B. Du Bois

I recently attended the second annual AAIHS meeting at Vanderbilt University. I had the good fortune to attend the inaugural

Black Women Communists and Pan-Africanism: An Interview with Minkah Makalani

March 25, 2017March 29, 2017 Richard Mares #WomenandPanAfricanismSeries, Communism, Pan-Africanism

In today’s post, Richard Mares, an editorial assistant at Black Perspectives and Ph.D. candidate at Michigan State University, interviews Minkah Makalani about his recent article in

Katharine Houghton and Sidney Poitier in "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner." Photo: Columbia Pictures.

Race and Civil Rights Dramas in Hollywood

March 24, 2017March 28, 2017 Justin Gomer civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, film

This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of Stanley Kramer’s Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, starring the iconic Sidney Poitier. During the

Howard University and the Dream Sequence

March 23, 2017March 27, 2017 Josh Myers black politics, black radical tradition, freedom

The idea of “the Dream Sequence” was introduced to me by Howard alum and former professor Acklyn Lynch, a figure