Black Internationalism - AAIHS

W. E. B. Du Bois, World War I, and the Question of Failure

February 19, 2018February 24, 2018 Chad Williams #AAIHSRoundtable, #DuBoisForum, black intellectual history, racism, W.E.B. Du Bois

*This post is part of our online forum on W.E.B. Du Bois @ 150. 2018 marks both the sesquicentennial of W. E. B.

Set the World on Fire: A New Book on Black Nationalist Women’s Activism

February 17, 2018February 24, 2018 Melissa N. Shaw black nationalism, Black women, Pan-Africanism

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

Luncheon in honor of the President of Togo, Sylvanus Olympio, 1962. Photo: Abbie Rowe. White House Photographs. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston.

A Troubled Past: The United States and Africa since World War II

February 16, 2018February 20, 2018 Jessica Ann Levy africa, Anticolonialism, Donald Trump, imperialism, racism, Soviet Union

A few weeks ago, President Donald Trump sparked yet another international controversy with his reference to “sh**hole countries” to describe

The Nubian Body, African Aesthetics, and Cultural Imagination

February 15, 2018February 16, 2018 Janell Hobson africa, Afrofuturism, Black women, comic books, film, hip hop

The excitement over the much-anticipated African-themed superhero film, Black Panther, has reached fever pitch among African Americans and Black communities

An Internationalist Vision of Black History Month

February 13, 2018February 16, 2018 Annette Joseph-Gabriel black internationalism, Pan-Africanism

Black History Month has always had an international outlook. From its origins as Negro History Week, started in 1926 by