Black Political Thought - AAIHS

Race Women Internationalists and Global Black Freedom Struggles

October 30, 2018November 3, 2018 Shelby M. Sinclair Activism, African Diaspora, black feminism, black intellectual history, black internationalism, Black women, Caribbean, decolonization, Gender, race, racism

In her 1932 article entitled “The Awakening of Race Consciousness among Black Students,” Afro-Jamaican intellectual Una Marson advanced a theory

‘Radical Intellect’: An Interview with Historian Christopher M. Tinson

October 29, 2018November 5, 2018 Rebecca Brenner Graham Activism, black intellectual history, black politics, black press, primary source

In today’s post, blogger Rebecca Brenner interviews Christopher M. Tinson about his new book, Radical Intellect: Liberator Magazine and Black Activism in the 1960s. Tinson

Beyond the Black Paradigm? Queer Afro-diasporic Strategies

October 22, 2018November 3, 2018 Fatima El-Tayeb African Diaspora, Black Europe, Black Europe Series, Black German, Black Queers, blackness, Racial Capitalism

*This post is part of our new blog series on Black Europe. This series, edited by Kira Thurman and Anne-Marie Angelo, explores what it means to

The Black Convention Movement and Black Politics in Nineteenth-Century America

October 18, 2018November 1, 2018 Stephen Robinson black politics, civil rights, Politics, race

African American leaders throughout the nineteenth century recognized the significance of creating and sustaining national organizations that were built upon

The Deportation of Claudia Jones

October 5, 2018October 8, 2018 Denise Lynn black nationalism, black radical tradition, Black radicalism, Blacks in Britain, Claudia Jones, criminal justice system

This is the final installment in a three-part series on Claudia Jones. Read the first and second installments. At the