James Padilioni Jr - AAIHS

Bringing Archives of Death and Life into the Classroom

September 21, 2017September 23, 2017 James Padilioni Jr black intellectual history, teaching

This fall I am teaching African American History Since 1863, starting with the event of Emancipation as a legal-juridical happening

The History and Significance of Kente Cloth in the Black Diaspora

May 22, 2017May 24, 2017 James Padilioni Jr African Diaspora, education

This spring thousands of college students will march across commencement stages to receive their degrees. Many of these students will

Blackness, a Haunted History

April 21, 2017April 24, 2017 James Padilioni Jr Haiti, Vodou

Historians generally frame their writing and research around the notion of change over time, assuming that time moves forward. But

The Signifyin(g) Saint: Encoding Homoerotic Intimacy in Black Harlem

March 14, 2017March 17, 2017 James Padilioni Jr Black Queers, Harlem, Harlem Renaissance, New York, religion, W.E.B. Du Bois

On June 25, 1942, Edward Atkinson arrived at 101 Central Park West to sit for a photo shoot in the

Cosmological Queerness Across the Yoruba Diaspora

February 5, 2017April 2, 2018 James Padilioni Jr Afro-Brazilians, Black Queers, Brazil, religion, slave trade, slavery

The constellating topics of homosexuality and masculinity are perennial to Black American discourses. In contemporary debates, the chorus shouting loudest