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The Antiracist Visual Politics of Afro-Brazilians

April 4, 2023April 3, 2023 Andrea S. Allen #AAIHSRoundtable, #VisualizingBlackLives, black internationalism

This post is part of our online roundtable on Reighan Gillam’s Visualizing Black Lives Part history, part ethnography, part media studies, and all

Afro-Brazilian Resistance Through Black-Owned Media

April 3, 2023April 3, 2023 Gladys Mitchell-Walthour #AAIHSRoundtable, #VisualizingBlackLives, black intellectual history, black internationalism

This post is part of our online roundtable on Reighan Gillam’s Visualizing Black Lives In Visualizing Black Lives: Ownership and

Online Roundtable–Reighan Gillam’s ‘Visualizing Black Lives’

March 31, 2023March 29, 2023 AAIHS Editors #Roundtable, #VisualizingBlackLives, Book Forum, Brazil, MEDIA

April 3–7, 2023 Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting a roundtable on Reighan Gillam’s Visualizing Black

Zora Neale Hurston’s Anthropological Legacy

March 30, 2023March 23, 2023 Ida E. Jones Anthropology, black feminism, book review, Womanism, Zora Neale Hurston

As the twentieth century shrinks in the collective imagination of American popular culture, select iconographic images and sounds remain eternal.

Black Homeownership Before World War II

March 29, 2023March 23, 2023 Menika Dirkson Home Ownership, housing, Jim Crow, Philadelphia, segregation

On November 2, 1914, twenty eight-year-old James H. Teagle, the “colored” chauffeur for Philadelphia City Controller John Walton, left his