Zora Neale Hurston’s Anthropological Legacy
As the twentieth century shrinks in the collective imagination of American popular culture, select iconographic images and sounds remain eternal.
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African diaspora
Black Internationalism and Haiti: An Interview with Leslie M. Alexander
In today’s post, Lauren T. Rorie interviews Dr. Leslie M. Alexander, author of Fear of a Black Republic: Haiti and the Birth
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2023 Finalists for the Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History
The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) is pleased to announce the finalists for the fifth annual Pauli
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CFP: Ideas of Race in Latin America
Many countries in Latin America have fashioned themselves as racial democracies or nations free from racism and with fluid racial
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The Mystique of Chica da Silva
“La negra tiene tumba’o, nunca camina de la’o.” -Celia Cruz In 1985, West German band Boney M. released its eighth album, Eye Dance,
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