Black Identity - AAIHS

Recovering the Lives of City Women

*This post is part of our joint online roundtable with the Journal of African American History. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments is

The question of Black peoples’ relationship to the natural environment is a complex one. Overwhelmingly, scholarly discourse on this relationship

African American landownership in the South Carolina and Georgia lowcountry has been a major topic of discussion for a number

Mound Bayou, Mississippi, founded by Isaiah T. Montgomery—formerly enslaved by Joseph Davis—and his relative Benjamin Green, tells a story of

Aneeka Ayanna Henderson is the author of Veil and Vow: Marriage Matters in Contemporary African American Culture (February 2020) published