African diaspora - AAIHS

Slavery, New Orleans, and the Counting Blues

March 28, 2017March 31, 2017 Rashauna Johnson New Orleans, slave trade, slavery

In “Countin’ the Blues,” Gertrude “Ma” Rainey sings, “Layin’ in my bed with my face turned to the wall…Tryin’ to

Black Women Communists and Pan-Africanism: An Interview with Minkah Makalani

March 25, 2017March 29, 2017 Richard Mares #WomenandPanAfricanismSeries, Communism, Pan-Africanism

In today’s post, Richard Mares, an editorial assistant at Black Perspectives and Ph.D. candidate at Michigan State University, interviews Minkah Makalani about his recent article in

“Held in Trust by History:” The Intellectual Activism of Lerone Bennett Jr.

March 16, 2017March 18, 2017 Christopher Tinson Activism, black intellectual history, Historiography

On the morning of December 11, 2016, a notice in the Chicago area news read as follows: “Author Lerone Bennett

The Signifyin(g) Saint: Encoding Homoerotic Intimacy in Black Harlem

March 14, 2017March 17, 2017 James Padilioni Jr Black Queers, Harlem, Harlem Renaissance, New York, religion, W.E.B. Du Bois

On June 25, 1942, Edward Atkinson arrived at 101 Central Park West to sit for a photo shoot in the

#AAIHS2017: Expanding the Boundaries of Black Intellectual History

March 11, 2017March 14, 2017 Brandon Byrd #AAIHS2017

The past year has certainly been an exciting one for the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS). In the months