Book Review - AAIHS

Religion in the Work of Langston Hughes

June 12, 2018June 16, 2018 N’Kosi Oates Harlem, poetry, religion

It was 1914 when twelve-year-old Langston Hughes went to a Black Church for the first time. It marked him for

#SummerReading: Recommended New Books on the Black Experience

June 11, 2018June 16, 2018 Ibram X. Kendi black intellectual history

With summer quickly approaching, I have compiled a list of recommended new non-fiction books. All of these books, which were

Black Subjectivity and the Origins of American Gynecology

May 31, 2018October 24, 2018 Rachel Zellars Black women, Gender, medicine, Racial Violence, slavery

In her new award-winning book, Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology, historian Deirdre Cooper Owens describes

The Illusion of Progress in the Story of American Democracy

May 29, 2018June 5, 2018 Rebecca Brenner Graham black intellectual history, democracy, Frederick Douglass, literature, Politics, slavery, W.E.B. Du Bois

The word progress is central to contemporary political rhetoric. Self-described progressives work toward what they see as positive change. Meanwhile, a

The Promise of the Nation of Islam

May 24, 2018June 5, 2018 Robyn C. Spencer #PromiseofPatriarchy, archives, Black women, Nation of Islam, religion, self-determination

This post is part of our online roundtable on Ula Taylor’s The Promise of Patriarchy Controversy over the Nation of Islam