Black Political Thought - AAIHS

On Transnational Black Feminism

April 14, 2017April 17, 2017 Keisha N. Blain black feminism

At the recent OAH conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, I participated in a roundtable on “Transnational Circulations of Feminism in

Soldiers at the siege of Yorktown, including an African American soldier of the 1st Rhode Island Regiment, by Jean-Baptiste-Antoine DeVerger, 1781. (Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection, Brown University).

Historicizing Freedom and Black Abolitionism

April 12, 2017April 15, 2017 Chernoh Sesay Jr. black intellectual history, black politics, black protest, emancipation, slavery

More than a year ago, I wrote about the idea of hope relative to northern black activism during the American

Donald Trump holds a roundtable meeting with the Republican Leadership Initiative in New York, Aug. 25, 2016. Dr. Ben Carson is seated next to Trump at center. Source: Grandmother Africa.

The Critique of Racial Liberalism: An Interview with Charles W. Mills

April 3, 2017December 30, 2017 Neil Roberts #raceandphilosophy, Philosophy, Racial Capitalism, Trumpism

This month I interviewed Charles W. Mills about his new book, Black Rights/White Wrongs: The Critique of Racial Liberalism. Mills is

The History of Black Evangelicals and American Politics

March 30, 2017April 1, 2017 Mary Beth Mathews Black Leaders, religion

During the 2016 presidential election cycle, pundits and pollsters discussed the “evangelical” vote and whether the Republican candidate—a twice-divorced casino

Howard University and the Dream Sequence

March 23, 2017March 27, 2017 Josh Myers black politics, black radical tradition, freedom

The idea of “the Dream Sequence” was introduced to me by Howard alum and former professor Acklyn Lynch, a figure