Black history - AAIHS

Black Lives Matter, Black Power, and the Role of White Allies

December 12, 2018December 24, 2018 Say Burgin Activism, black lives matter

The Movement for Black Lives has revived many familiar debates, one of which revolves around the question of the role

The Civil Rights Movement for Intellectual Change

December 11, 2018December 24, 2018 Joshua Clark Davis Activism, black intellectual history, Civil Rights Movement, Gender

More than half a century since the 1960s, scholars and citizens alike continue to grapple with how our country should

Transness As A Category For Possibility

December 4, 2018December 7, 2018 Rachel Zellars #AAIHSRoundtable, #BlackonBothSides, Gender

*This post is part of our online roundtable on C. Riley Snorton’s Black on Both Sides. The author discusses the second chapter: ‘Trans Capable:

On the Life of Black Abolitionist Anna Murray Douglass

November 29, 2018December 7, 2018 Leigh Fought Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass Forum

*This post is part of our online forum on the life of Frederick Douglass. “She drew around herself a certain reserve,” Rosetta

Online Roundtable: ‘Black on Both Sides’: A Racial History of Trans Identity

November 19, 2018December 10, 2018 AAIHS Editors #BlackonBothSides, Gender, race, trans identity

December 3-7, 2018 Black Perspectives,the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online roundtable on C. Riley