Black Political Thought - AAIHS - Page 120

The 1967 MLK and the Politics of Transcendence

January 21, 2017January 10, 2018 Ibram X. Kendi black politics, Martin Luther King Jr.

I am not thinking about Donald Trump today. I am still hungover from MLK Day. I am still celebrating the

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Why We Need James and Grace Lee Boggs Now

January 19, 2017January 22, 2017 Garrett Felber Activism, black intellectual history, black protest

In 2011, I sat in the living room of Grace Lee Boggs at 3061 Field Street, a space Bill Strickland affectionately

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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.

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W.E.B. Du Bois, The Black Flame, and the Struggle Ahead

January 11, 2017January 20, 2018 Lavelle Porter #CharlestonSyllabus, 2016 Presidential Election, Charleston, W.E.B. Du Bois

Reading W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Black Flame trilogy in the months after the June 17, 2015 massacre at Emmanuel AME

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Totalitarian Century: A New Book on Geopolitics in the Black Literary Imagination

January 8, 2017January 11, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi black intellectual history, black internationalism, black politics, W.E.B. Du Bois

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

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