Black Identity - AAIHS

The Radical Hope of Octavia Butler

January 22, 2019January 29, 2019 Lavelle Porter Black women, literature, Racial Violence

When I assigned Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower for my Introduction to Fiction classes this fall, I was fearful

Black Thought and Sexual Politics: An Interview with Guy Emerson Mount

January 17, 2019January 29, 2019 Chris Shell black intellectual history, Frederick Douglass, Interracial relationships

In today’s post, Christopher Shell, a PhD student at Michigan State University, interviews historian Guy Emerson Mount about his chapter in New Perspectives on Black

Black Pioneers and the Struggle for Equality on the Frontier

January 11, 2019January 29, 2019 Jacob Jurss American West, landownership, Resistance

At the turn of the 20th century historian Frederick Jackson Turner argued, “[t]he frontier is the line of most rapid

Black Resistance in Literature, Television, and Song

January 10, 2019January 29, 2019 Matthew Teutsch film, literature, slave trade, slavery

Looking upon the Wakandan sunset at the end of Ryan Coogler’s film Black Panther (2018), T’Challa holds his cousin N’Jadaka

Recognizing Black Elderhood

January 4, 2019January 29, 2019 Celeste Henery African Diaspora, black internationalism, Brazil, music, race

In Pedagogies of Crossing, writer M. Jacqui Alexander asks us to observe the sustenance that lies sometimes in plain sight.