American identity - AAIHS

Racebending and Representation in Comic Books

February 6, 2017February 8, 2017 Bryan Cooper Owens #comicsandrace, comic books

This guest post is part of our blog series on Comics, Race, and Society, edited by Julian Chambliss and Walter

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

Speech Speaks: Arrested Development’s Mastermind Thinking Aloud (Part II)

January 14, 2017June 27, 2017 Guy Emerson Mount music

This month I had the opportunity to interview Speech from the music group, Arrested Development. This is the second part of

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

Suspect Freedoms: A New Book on Afro-Cubans in New York

January 9, 2017January 11, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi Afro-Cubans, Anticolonialism, Immigration, Latin America, Latino/a

This post is part of my blog series that announces the publication of selected new books in African American History