Black Political Thought - AAIHS

‘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

Black Athletes and the Civil Rights Movement

January 9, 2019January 29, 2019 Louis Moore black protest, Civil Rights Movement, segregation, sports

Elgin Baylor would not shut up and dribble. Baylor, who grew up in segregated Washington, D.C., had grown tired of

Readings on Transnational African American History

January 8, 2019January 29, 2019 Nico Slate and Clayton Vaughn-Roberson Activism, black internationalism, Politics

African American History has always transcended borders of many kinds, yet historians have not always recognized the transnational and global