Black Political Thought - AAIHS

Prefiguring the African American “Postcolony”: Black Independent Schools and the Quest for Liberation

April 25, 2016December 30, 2016 Reena Goldthree #AAIHSRoundtable, #WeAreAnAfricanPeople, black intellectual history, black internationalism, Pan-Africanism

This week (April 25-30), we are hosting a roundtable on Russell Rickford’s We Are an African People: Independent Education, Black

Celia, #BlackLivesMatter, and the Diffusion of Black Thought

April 13, 2016April 13, 2016 Brandon Byrd #BlackLivesMatter, black protest, Black women, teaching

One of the hardest days in my early African American history class is the day that we analyze State of

Thinking with Black Diasporic Intellectual Production

April 12, 2016April 12, 2016 Jessica Marie Johnson black intellectual history, black protest, Black women, Caribbean, slavery

On April 5, AAIHS blogger Chris Cameron described five approaches to African American Intellectual History. Cameron’s approaches included intellectual history

Centering Black Women’s Ideas and Activism in Twentieth Century London

April 11, 2016April 11, 2016 Keisha N. Blain black feminism, black internationalism, black women's internationalism, London

In recent years, we have witnessed a significant growth in the literature on Black Britain. The works of Paul Gilroy,

The Roots of “Malcolmology”

April 10, 2016April 9, 2016 Russell Rickford black nationalism, Black radicalism, Malcolm X

For me, as for many children of the 1980s, the recent death of Phife Dawg of A Tribe Called Quest