September, 2019 - AAIHS - Page 2

A Black Woman Communist Candidate: Charlene Mitchell’s 1968 Presidential Campaign

September 24, 2019September 17, 2019 E. James West Activism, anti-capitalism, black politics, black radical tradition, Black radicalism, Black women, capitalism, Communism, Communist Party, Politics, presidents

This piece is the third installment of E. James West’s article series on the 1968 Presidential Campaign. Click these links

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Claudia Jones Against the Korean War

September 23, 2019September 16, 2019 Denise Lynn Activism, antiwar activism, black internationalism, black politics, black protest, Black radicalism, Black women, capitalism

Peace was a central aspect of the post-World War II Black Freedom Struggle, partially because the nuclear bomb was only

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Remaking a Life: A New Book about How Women Living with HIV/AIDS Confront Inequality

September 20, 2019September 10, 2019 J. T. Roane Activism, black politics, Black women, Gender, HIV-AIDS, oral history, Resistance

This post is part of our blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History

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Unilever’s Ads and the History of Sexual Abuse Under Slavery

September 19, 2019September 19, 2019 Thomas A. Foster art, Gender, race, Racial Violence, racism, sexuality, slavery

In a typical US advertisement for Magnum ice cream, a young, attractive white woman devours an ice-cream treat coated in chocolate. The

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Transnational Legacies of Slavery and Revolution in ‘The Black Scholar’

September 18, 2019September 16, 2019 Cristina Mislán African Diaspora, Afro-Cubans, black internationalism, Black Power, Caribbean, Cuba, Pan-Africanism, race

Some months after visiting Havana, Cuba in late fall of 1976, Robert Chrisman — editor-in-chief of the journal The Black Scholar —

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