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The Antiracist Visual Politics of Afro-Brazilians

April 4, 2023April 3, 2023 Andrea S. Allen #AAIHSRoundtable, #VisualizingBlackLives, black internationalism

This post is part of our online roundtable on Reighan Gillam’s Visualizing Black Lives Part history, part ethnography, part media studies, and all

Online Roundtable–Reighan Gillam’s ‘Visualizing Black Lives’

March 31, 2023March 29, 2023 AAIHS Editors #Roundtable, #VisualizingBlackLives, Book Forum, Brazil, MEDIA

April 3–7, 2023 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting a roundtable on Reighan Gillam’s Visualizing Black

Zora Neale Hurston’s Anthropological Legacy

March 30, 2023March 23, 2023 Ida E. Jones Anthropology, black feminism, book review, Womanism, Zora Neale Hurston

As the twentieth century shrinks in the collective imagination of American popular culture, select iconographic images and sounds remain eternal.

Black Internationalism and Haiti: An Interview with Leslie M. Alexander

March 9, 2023March 9, 2023 Lauren T. Rorie Author Interview, Black Internationalist, Haiti, Internationalism, Pan-Africanism

In today’s post, Lauren T. Rorie interviews Dr. Leslie M. Alexander, author of Fear of a Black Republic: Haiti and the Birth

2023 Finalists for the Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History

March 8, 2023March 7, 2023 AAIHS Editors #AAIHSConference, AAIHS23, Book Award, conference, Pauli Murray, Pauli Murray Book Award Finalists

The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) is pleased to announce the finalists for the fifth annual Pauli