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Online Forum–Digital Black Atlantics

October 29, 2021October 28, 2021 AAIHS Editors #AAIHSRoundtable, black intellectual history, teaching

Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is pleased to announce the upcoming online forum on

Torpedoing Black Radicalism: The Case of Hugh Mulzac

October 28, 2021October 26, 2021 Tony Pecinovsky Alphaeus Hunton, Anti-Communism, Black Veterans, Communism, Hugh Mulzac, Labor Movement, Marian Anderson, McCarthyism, Socialism, WWII

It was late October 1942. The crew of the Liberty Ship Booker T. Washington had just “lashed down the last crate

Hair Discrimination, Anti-Black Racism, and Resistance

October 26, 2021October 25, 2021 Adele N. Norris Gender, race

This is the second of a two-part series about discrimination and Black hair. For part one, click here. The politics

Black Feminist Imagination: An Interview with Janell Hobson

October 25, 2021October 25, 2021 Robert Greene II black intellectual history, Black women

Janell Hobson is Professor and Chair of the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Albany.

Did Europe Bring Homophobia to Africa?

October 21, 2021October 20, 2021 Bright Alozie africa, Cosmology, Gender, LGBT, sexuality, spirituality

Recently at a public forum, someone asked me if “same-sex relations in Africa [are] un-African?” While answering the question,