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Online Forum–Black Intellectuals and the Crisis of Democracy

January 13, 2023January 11, 2023 AAIHS Editors #BlackIntellectualDemocracy, American Democracy, black intellectuals, democracy, intellectuals

January 16, 2023 to January 23, 2023 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an

Most Popular Black Perspectives Pieces of the Year

December 21, 2022December 18, 2022 Reighan Gillam Black Historians, Black History, Black Perspectives, Intellectual History, slavery

In 2022, Black Perspectives was alive with roundtables, forums, and individual posts that demonstrated the depth and breadth of Black

Race, Religion, and The History Behind ‘Heathen’

December 15, 2022December 12, 2022 Hayley Madl Black Religion, book review, Christianity, race, religion

Heathen: Religion and Race in American History, by Kathryn Gin Lum, argues that the label of “heathen” denotes a broad

Tracing the Pan-African Foundations of Transnational Black Feminism

November 28, 2022November 25, 2022 Ashley Everson black feminism, Black women, Gender, Pan-Africanism

Following her deportation from New York to London, England, Black communist Claudia Jones expanded the scope of her leftist, anti-imperial

Olaudah Equiano’s Transnational Insights

November 10, 2022November 1, 2022 Taylor Prescott Black Atlantic, book review, Internationalism, Olaudah Equiano, Transnationalism

Few figures of the eighteenth century have captured the attention of historians, literary critics, and scholars of Africana studies as