African diaspora - AAIHS

Did Europe Bring Homophobia to Africa?

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

Francisco de Paula Brito (1808-61), an Afro-Brazilian man of letters, “a son and grandson of freedpersons,” catalyzed critical transformations in

Jack Johnson never set foot in Africa, but the circulation of his images was heavily censored and sometimes prohibited in

African American history has always been a communal act. From its inception in the nineteenth century, Black men and women,

UNIA Parade, Organized in Harlem, 1920 (New York Public Library) It is difficult to imagine recent Black intellectual history without