Black Political Thought - AAIHS

Ernest Gaines and Black Studies as Refuge

January 30, 2019March 31, 2019 Biko Caruthers Afro-pessimism, Black Studies, Philosophy

Part I: Making the wind pink, and the grass Black In “The Sky is Gray,” James, a young Black boy,

Social Justice Work in North Carolina: An Interview with Activist Nhawndie Smith

January 30, 2019June 20, 2019 Ajamu Amiri Dillahunt #BlackOrganizingToday, Activism, black feminism, black politics, black protest, black radical tradition, Resistance

This post is part of our Black Organizing Today Series. This series, edited by Ajamu Amiri Dillahunt, consists of interviews

‘Worldmaking After Empire’: A New Book about Self-Determination

January 28, 2019January 29, 2019 J. T. Roane black internationalism, Black political thought, black politics, Caribbean

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

Black Thought and Sexual Politics: An Interview with Guy Emerson Mount

January 17, 2019January 29, 2019 Chris Shell black intellectual history, Frederick Douglass, Interracial relationships

In today’s post, Christopher Shell, a PhD student at Michigan State University, interviews historian Guy Emerson Mount about his chapter in New Perspectives on Black

The Radical Tradition of Student Protest

January 15, 2019January 29, 2019 Mike Jirik black radical tradition, Haiti, Haitian Revolution, student activism

On the night of August 20, 2018, student protesters at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill toppled a