Black Political Thought - AAIHS

Expanding the Literature on Black Internationalism and Transnational Politics

July 29, 2015December 30, 2016 Guest Poster #AAIHSRoundtable, black internationalism, Communism, Pan-Africanism

This is the fifth day of the AAIHS’ roundtable on Hakim Adi’s Pan-Africanism and Communism. We began with an introduction

Ta-Nehisi Coates, David Brooks, and the Master Narrative of American History

July 25, 2015July 25, 2015 Guy Emerson Mount capitalism, Ta-Nehisi Coates, teaching

I love Ta-Nehisi Coates. David Brooks…not so much. Biases disclosed, their squabble—if one can even call it that—exposes

Nothing is Impossible: Black History and Black Futures as a Flag Falls

July 12, 2015July 12, 2015 Jessica Marie Johnson #BlackLivesMatter, #CharlestonSyllabus, Activism, Ferguson, freedom, reconstruction, slavery, South Carolina

At dawn on June 27, 2015, Bree Newsome (with support from local activists) scaled the flag pole in front of

The Illusion of Afro-Asian Solidarity?: Situating the 1955 Bandung Conference

June 30, 2015June 7, 2020 Tamara Nopper #BlackAsianSolidarity, Afro-Asia

**This is the final installment of my series on Afro-Asia, examining the cultural and political exchanges and historical connections between people of

#BlackThoughtsMatter

June 28, 2015January 1, 2017 Guy Emerson Mount #BlackLivesMatter, #CharlestonSyllabus, Activism, capitalism, Chicago, Ferguson, W.E.B. Du Bois

As nine beautiful black minds are laid to rest and Confederate flags are symbolically ripped down across the nation, the