Black Identity - AAIHS

The Idea of the Black Intellectual

When I first began to teach a class titled Black Intellectual Thought, I wanted to broaden the classic definition of

This post is a bit more informal than the carefully researched posts of my colleagues on this blog. I would

Its Black History Month, which means that mainstream society pulls out the iconic images of African American freedom fighters including

Just recently, an African American student meeting me in office hours surprisingly and enthusiastically commented that my class was the

I spent the latter portion of 2014 feeling like I was waking up in a veritable Groundhog Day (1993) remake,