Black history - AAIHS

False Choices: Identity Politics and Lessons from the Left

January 18, 2017January 20, 2017 Victoria Wolcott Activism, black politics, black protest

Recently my academic-laden social media feeds have been filling up with denouncements of identity politics, or occasionally denouncements of those

Transcending Time: Centering Literature at Festac 77

January 17, 2017May 30, 2017 Suzanne Enzerink black intellectual history, black internationalism, Pan-Africanism, West Africa

In January 1977, a month-long celebration of African diasporic culture brought participants from fifty-five countries to Lagos, Nigeria, including several

Audre Lorde standing in front of board reading "Women are powerful and dangerous." Source: The Guardian.

Black Queer Writers and the Transformative Possibilities of Queer Sensuality

January 17, 2017January 19, 2017 J. T. Roane black intellectual history, Black Queers, sexuality

Black Queer writers of the 1980s hoped to precipitate a seismic transformation in the political culture of the United States.

The Art And Lives of James Baldwin: An Interview with Douglas Field

January 15, 2017March 26, 2017 Phillip Luke Sinitiere black intellectual history, black radical tradition, Black radicalism, religion

This month I interviewed Douglas Field about his book All Those Strangers: The Art and Lives of James Baldwin. Field

W.E.B. Du Bois, The Black Flame, and the Struggle Ahead

January 11, 2017January 20, 2018 Lavelle Porter #CharlestonSyllabus, 2016 Presidential Election, Charleston, W.E.B. Du Bois

Reading W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Black Flame trilogy in the months after the June 17, 2015 massacre at Emmanuel AME