African diaspora - AAIHS

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

Making Freedom in Colonial Antigua: An Interview with Natasha Lightfoot

April 4, 2016April 4, 2016 Reena Goldthree Antigua, Black women, Caribbean, emancipation, slavery

This month, I interviewed historian Natasha Lightfoot about her new book, Troubling Freedom: Antigua and the Aftermath of British Emancipation

Global Garveyism: Mapping Those at Home and Abroad

April 1, 2016January 1, 2017 Guest Poster Garveyism, Marcus Garvey, Universal Negro Improvement Association

This is a guest post by Adam Ewing, an Assistant Professor of African American Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. He