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We Are An African People and the Dynamism of Black Power Studies

April 26, 2016April 26, 2016 Guest Poster #AAIHSRoundtable, #WeAreAnAfricanPeople, black intellectual history, black nationalism, Black Power Studies

This is the second day of our roundtable on Russell Rickford’s book, We Are an African People: Independent Education, Black

A Telenovela, Slavery, and the Diaspora

April 17, 2016April 15, 2016 Greg Childs Brazil, slavery

A Escrava Isaura, the 1875 novel by Bernardo Guimaraes, was one of a number of late 19th century works of

Thinking with Black Diasporic Intellectual Production

April 12, 2016April 12, 2016 Jessica Marie Johnson black intellectual history, black protest, Black women, Caribbean, slavery

On April 5, AAIHS blogger Chris Cameron described five approaches to African American Intellectual History. Cameron’s approaches included intellectual history

Centering Black Women’s Ideas and Activism in Twentieth Century London

April 11, 2016April 11, 2016 Keisha N. Blain black feminism, black internationalism, black women's internationalism, London

In recent years, we have witnessed a significant growth in the literature on Black Britain. The works of Paul Gilroy,

The Roots of “Malcolmology”

April 10, 2016April 9, 2016 Russell Rickford black nationalism, Black radicalism, Malcolm X

For me, as for many children of the 1980s, the recent death of Phife Dawg of A Tribe Called Quest