Black Political Thought - AAIHS

Writing Women Into Black Power

April 23, 2018April 28, 2018 Laura Warren Hill #RemakingBlackPower, Activism, African Diaspora, black feminism, black politics, Black women

*This post is part of our online roundtable on Ashley Farmer’s Remaking Black Power In Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed

W. E. B. Du Bois, Higher Education, and the Black Intellectual

April 21, 2018April 24, 2018 Lavelle Porter education, literature, W.E.B. Du Bois

The Quest of the Silver Fleece, published in 1911, is the first of five novels that W. E. B. Du

Haiti, Cultural Politics, and US Occupation

April 18, 2018April 24, 2018 Karen Cook Bell black intellectual history, Haiti, imperialism, literature, poetry

Haiti’s intellectual dissidents played an instrumental role in advocating the Haitianization of Haiti–the embrace of Haitian culture, peasant life, and

The Lost Black Scholar: A New Book on the Pioneering Anthropologist Allison Davis

April 18, 2018April 21, 2018 J. T. Roane Chicago, civil rights, education, Jim Crow

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

“Why Aren’t Black People More Optimistic?”

April 13, 2018April 24, 2018 Trimiko Melancon Black film, police brutality, white supremacy

In a 1968 interview, television personality Dick Cavett asked James Baldwin, renowned author-activist, what many white Americans at that time