Black Protest - AAIHS

Invisible No More: A New Book on Police Violence Against Women of Color

October 7, 2017October 9, 2017 Julie Hawks Immigration, police brutality, police violence, racist ideas

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

"Chicago race riot - beginning of the riot; White and Negroes leaving Twenty-ninth Street beach after the drowning of Eugene Williams." 1922. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library Digital Collections.

Sex, Swimming, and Chicago’s Racial Divide

October 3, 2017October 8, 2017 Betsy Schlabach Chicago, Racial Violence, racism, sexuality

Sunday, July 27, 1919, was a hot, sweltering, sunny day at Chicago’s Twenty-Ninth Street Beach. When fourteen-year-old Eugene Williams, who

Online Roundtable: Devyn Spence Benson’s Antiracism in Cuba

October 1, 2017November 7, 2017 AAIHS Editors #AntiracismInCuba, Afro-Cubans, Cuba

November 6-11, 2017 Black Perspectives, the blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting an online roundtable on Devyn Spence

The Wall of Respect: A New Book on Public Art and Black Liberation

September 15, 2017September 16, 2017 Ibram X. Kendi art, Black Power, black protest, Chicago

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

Beyond the Hashtag rally, Washington, D.C., July 2016. Photo: Victoria Pickering/Flickr.

Imagining Black Technological Practices in Contemporary America

September 13, 2017September 16, 2017 Alyssa Collins Activism, black lives matter, black protest, hashtag, Literary studies, technology

As practices of online protest evolve into historical narratives, we should take time to consider alternate technological practices developing within