Black Identity - AAIHS

Dismantling Whiteness as the Beauty Standard

December 9, 2017December 14, 2017 Sasha Turner African Diaspora, Black women, blackness, Colorism, Resistance, slavery, white supremacy

Miss Jamaica Davina Bennett rejected Eurocentric beauty ideals when she sported her afro at this year’s Miss Universe Pageant. Bennett had

Remaking Black Power: A New Book on Women and Black Power

December 4, 2017December 7, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi black feminism, Black women, social justice

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

Civil Rights Playwrights as Black Intellectuals

November 25, 2017November 28, 2017 Julie Burrell civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, Harold Cruse, theater

In the Society for U.S. Intellectual History’s recent roundtable on Harold Cruse’s The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, contributors reaffirmed the significance of

“Black Enuf*”: A New Animated Documentary on Black Queer Identity

November 17, 2017November 18, 2017 Michael T. Barry Jr. Black women, race, sexuality

This post is part of my blog series that announces the release of new films in African American History and African Diaspora Studies.

Black Identity Extremists: COINTELPRO 2017

November 13, 2017November 15, 2017 Robyn C. Spencer black nationalism, Black Panther Party, black politics, Black Power, black radical tradition, Black radicalism, police brutality, white supremacy

On October 6, 2017 an FBI internal report identifying “Black Identity Extremists” (BIE) as a major threat to Law Enforcement