Black Identity - AAIHS

Black Women and the Peoples Temple in Jonestown

January 31, 2017February 3, 2017 Sikivu Hutchinson religion

On November 18, 1978, over nine hundred members of the San Francisco-based Peoples Temple church (including over three hundred children)

On Post-War Black British History

January 27, 2017January 29, 2017 Hakim Adi Caribbean, Politics

It is always fascinating to read historical accounts of the period you have lived through, or think you are familiar

Blood Sugar: A New Book on Food Justice in Black America

January 25, 2017January 27, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi capitalism, Caribbean, Racial Capitalism, racism

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

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

Audre Lorde standing in front of board reading "Women are powerful and dangerous." Source: The Guardian.

Black Queer Writers and the Transformative Possibilities of Queer Sensuality

January 17, 2017January 19, 2017 J. T. Roane black intellectual history, Black Queers, sexuality

Black Queer writers of the 1980s hoped to precipitate a seismic transformation in the political culture of the United States.