Black Studies - AAIHS - Page 10

What Julian Bond Taught Me About Politics and Power

January 27, 2021January 27, 2021 Jeanne Theoharis black politics, black protest, Civil Rights Movement, South

I found myself thinking about Julian Bond when the news broke that Georgia had elected its first Black senator, Reverend

Read more

Science, Feminism, and Black Liberation: An Interview with Sam Anderson

January 5, 2021January 3, 2021 Emily Hamilton #SamAnderson, Activism, education, Sciences, teaching

Emily Hamilton interviewed Sam Anderson in early December, 2019. Sam Anderson is a Brooklyn, New York, native and a founding

Read more

Resisting Carceral Cities: A Conversation with Carl Suddler and Garrett Felber

November 30, 2020November 29, 2020 AAIHS Editors Black political thought, carceral state, juvenile justice, Nation of Islam, New York, police violence, policing, prisons, race, Racial Violence, racism

Conversations in Black Freedom Studies (CBFS) is a monthly discussion series held at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Curated

Read more

Fire Suppression, the Carceral State, and Black Ecological Knowledge

November 12, 2020November 9, 2020 Celeste Henery black, Black Ecologies, carceral state, environment, literature, poetry, prisons, race, racism

As I write, major wildfires burn in the state of California. A mixture of droughts, human-altered landscapes, dense vegetation, and

Read more

The Contours of Black Studies in American Public Schools

November 9, 2020November 9, 2020 Alexander Hyres Black Studies, education, ethnic studies, race, student activism

Jonathan Zimmerman, a historian of education at the University of Pennsylvania, recently published an op-ed in the Washington Post about

Read more